LEADER 03989nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910782354103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-93699-5 010 $a9786611936990 010 $a90-474-2384-4 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004163706.i-342 035 $a(CKB)1000000000549611 035 $a(EBL)468432 035 $a(OCoLC)312933554 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179692 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183116 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179692 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10140194 035 $a(PQKB)10754675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC468432 035 $a(OCoLC)312933554$z(OCoLC)316006089$z(OCoLC)608360886$z(OCoLC)609354449$z(OCoLC)706147345$z(OCoLC)712987501$z(OCoLC)744555680$z(OCoLC)764531503 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047423843 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL468432 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10363813 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL193699 035 $a(PPN)174387768 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000549611 100 $a20071115d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInscribing devotion and death$b[electronic resource] $earchaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /$fby Karen B. Stern 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world,$x0927-7633 ;$vv. 161 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-16370-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index. 327 $aToward 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. 330 $aReliance on essentialist or syncretistic models of cultural dynamics has limited past evaluations of ancient Jewish populations. This reexamination of evidence for Jews of North Africa offers an alternative approach. Drawing from methods developed in cultural studies and historical linguistics, this book replaces traditional categories used to examine evidence for early Jewish populations and demonstrates how direct comparison of Jewish material evidence with that of its neighbors allows for a reassessment of what the category of ?Jewish? might have meant in different North African locations and periods and, by extension, elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The result is a transformed analysis of Jewish cultural identity that both emphasizes its indebtedness to larger regional contexts and allows for a more informed and complex understanding of Jewish cultural distinctiveness. 410 0$aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world ;$vv. 161. 606 $aJews$zAfrica, North$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJewish sepulchral monuments$zAfrica, North 606 $aTombs$zAfrica, North 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aJudaism$zAfrica, North$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJudaism$xHistory$yPost-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D 607 $aAfrica, North$xAntiquities, Roman 607 $aAfrica, North$xEthnic relations 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJewish sepulchral monuments 615 0$aTombs 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 676 $a939/.7004924 686 $a15.80$2bcl 700 $aStern$b Karen B$01495914 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782354103321 996 $aInscribing devotion and death$93720312 997 $aUNINA