Inscribing Devotion and Death - Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 161
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	December 2007
Authors:	Karen Stern
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-16370-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Promotions
LSN:	90-04-16370-0
Barcode:	9789004163706

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