Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa »

Karen B. Stern, Ph.D. (2006) in Religious Studies, Brown University, is Lecturer of Religion at University of Southern California.

Drawing upon scholarship of cultural identity, anthropology and historical linguistics, this book offers a novel and contextual approach to the interpretation of archaeological evidence for Jewish populations in North Africa and elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

Preface     ix
Abbreviations     xvii
Toward a Cultural History of Jewish Populations in Roman North Africa     1
Locating Jews in a North African World     51
Naming Like the Neighbors: Jewish Onomastic Practices in Roman North Africa     99
Inscribing the Dead to Describe the Living: Reading Jewish Identity through Funerary Language     145
Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African Synagogue: Hammam Lif as a Case Study     193
North African Jewish Responses to Death: Choosing Appropriate Gods, Neighbors, and Houses in the Afterlife     255
Conclusion     303
Bibliography     315
Index     335