What Can We Learn from Early Jewish Epigraphy?
What Can We Learn from Early Jewish Epigraphy?
Author(s): Pieter W. van der HorstSubject(s): History, Jewish studies, History of Judaism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: inscriptions; epigraphy; Greek language; diaspora; synagogue; age at death; women; manumission; onomastics; professions; pagan-Jewish relations
Summary/Abstract: This article presents a concise overview of the most relevant information that can be gleaned from the approx. 4000 Jewish inscriptions from antiquity (c. 300 BCE – 700 CE). Special attention is paid to those areas and topics about which inscriptions are our only (or main) source of information because the ancient Jewish literary sources are silent about them. The stones turn out to be especially relevant to the study of the western diaspora in the Roman and early Byzantine periods.
Journal: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 33-46
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English