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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-276 |
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Midrash
travel
milestones
multilingualism
cultural resistance
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