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LEADER: 02022cam a2200397 a 4500
001 2007046983
003 DLC
005 20090828092224.0
008 071115s2008 ne ab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007046983
016 7 $aB0800559$2bccb
020 $a9789004163706 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9004163700 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn181424152
035 $a(OCoLC)181424152
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dBWX$dOHX$dYDXCP$dNLGGC$dDLC
043 $aff-----
050 00 $aDS135.A25$bS74 2008
082 00 $a939/.7004924$222
084 $a15.80$2bcl
100 1 $aStern, Karen B.
245 10 $aInscribing devotion and death :$barchaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /$cby Karen B. Stern.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2008.
300 $axviii, 342 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world,$x0927-7633 ;$vv. 161
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aJews$zAfrica, North$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aJewish sepulchral monuments$zAfrica, North.
650 0 $aTombs$zAfrica, North.
650 0 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xJudaism.
650 0 $aJudaism$zAfrica, North$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aJudaism$xHistory$yPost-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
651 0 $aAfrica, North$xAntiquities, Roman.
651 0 $aAfrica, North$xEthnic relations.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip085/2007046983.html