The Language of Stones: Roman Milestones on Rabbinic Roads

In the multi-linguistic reality of late antique Palestine the mixing of languages was also a mixing of cultures. This essay examines how one multilingual artifact, the Roman milestone, functioned as a means of inter-cultural communication both for those who erected them and the rabbis who read them....

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Main Author: Levinson, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-276
Further subjects:B Midrash travel milestones multilingualism cultural resistance
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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