Inscribing Devotion and Death
Subtitle: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
Publisher: Brill
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789004163706
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; History of religion; History; History - Ancient & Classical; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Africa, North; Jewish sepulchral monuments; Jews; To 1500; Tombs
Description: "Scholarship on early Jewish populations has long been limited by a continued reliance on essentialist and syncretistic models of cultural dynamics. Drawing upon methods from cultural studies and historical linguistics, this innovative monograph reexamines archaeological evidence for Jewish presence in North Africa from periods of Roman rule through the first Arab conquest."--BOOK JACKET.