Personal Piety and Family Religion in Jewish Inscriptions from the Greco-Roman Diaspora

David Noy

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Personal Piety and Family Religion in Jewish Inscriptions from the Greco-Roman Diaspora

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Pages:: 261â276

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846765760_013

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Jews who put up inscriptions were not usually trying to make a statement about their personal piety. They were, according to the nature of the inscription, commemorating a deceased relative or recording a contribution to their community. The ways in which they did so were often influenced more by their Greco-Roman surroundings than by a common Jewish tradition. Only a few inscriptions directly address an individualâs relationship with God. These will be examined first, and this article will then study some of the other ways in which piety was expressed: personal names; the wording of epitaphs; manumissions; donations to religious projects by individuals and families. All of these can reveal attitudes to religion and the divine.

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Religionspraxis und IndividualitÃ¤t

Die Bedeutung von PersÃ¶nlicher FrÃ¶mmigkeit und Family Religion fÃ¼r das Personkonzept in der Antike

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