ISBN: 9789004163706 - inscribing devotion and death: archaeological evidence for jewish populations of north africa (religions in the graeco-roman world, band 161) (3 Ergebnisse)

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, xviii, 342 pp., front fly leaf with decorative stamp of previous owner (Exlibris H. S. Versnel), a well preserved copy. [RGRW - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 161]. - ISBN: 9789004163706. - Contents / Inhalt : Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index. ||| Jews Africa, North History To 1500; Jewish sepulchral monuments Africa, North; Tombs Africa, North; Death Religious aspects Judaism; Judaism Africa, North History To 1500; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Africa, North Antiquities, Roman; Africa, North Ethnic relations - Juden Afrika, Norden Geschichte bis 1500; Jüdische Grabdenkmäler Afrika, Norden; Gräber Afrika, Norden; Tod Religiöse Aspekte Judentum; Judentum Afrika, Norden Geschichte bis 1500; Judentum Geschichte Zeit nach dem Exil, 586 v. Chr. 210 n. Chr.; Afrika, Norden Antiquitäten, römisch; Afrika, Norden Ethnische Beziehungen - [oR-Doki | DOK | ] 720 g.…

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's hardcover, xvi, 342 pp., upper outer edge minorilly bumped (hardly disturbing), a well preserved copy. [RGRW - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 161]. - ISBN: 9789004163706. - [00B | SOD | oR ] 720 g.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reliance on essentialist or syncretistic models of cultural dynamics has limited past evaluations of ancient Jewish populations. This reexamination of evidence for Jews of North Africa offers an alternative approach. Drawing from methods developed in cultural studies and historical linguistics, this book replaces traditional categories used to examine evidence for early Jewish populations and demonstrates how direct comparison of Jewish material evidence with that of its neighbors allows for a reassessment of what the category of 'Jewish' might have meant in different North African locations and periods and, by extension, elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The result is a transformed analysis of Jewish cultural identity that both emphasizes its indebtedness to larger regional contexts and allows for a more informed and complex understanding of Jewish cultural distinctiveness.…