Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa - Couverture rigide

Stern, Karen

 
9789004163706: Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004163700 ISBN 13 : 9789004163706
Editeur : Brill, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004163700
ISBN 13 
9789004163706
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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