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Mohr Siebeck
Language
English
Pages
201

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Subjects
Emancipation, History, Jewish inscriptions, Jewish law, Jews, Legal status, laws, Roman influences, Slavery (Jewish law), Slaves, Jews, history, Slaves, emancipation
Places
Cimmerian Bosporus (Kingdom)
Times
to 1500

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part I: The Context
Chapter 2: The Bosporan Region: An Introduction
A Historical Sketch of the Bosporan Kingdom
Evidence of Hellenism
The Jewish Presence in the Bosporus
Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Greek Traditions of Manumission
A Taxonomy of Greek Manumissions
Sacral Manumissions
The Motivation behind the Manumission Inscription
Chapter Summary
Chapter 4: Judaism, Slavery, and Manumission
Historiography
Biblical Instruction on Slavery and Manumission
Jewish Manumission Inscriptions from Outside the Bosporus
Greco-Roman Jewish Literature on Slavery and Manumission
Chapter Summary
Part II: The Bosporan Manumissions
Chapter 5: An Overview of the Bosporan Manumissions
The Corpus of Inscriptions
The Pagan Manumissions
Chapter Summary
Chapter 6: The "Most High God" Manumissions
The Opening Invocation
The Date
The Emancipation
The Ongoing Obligations
The Oaths
The Oversight
Chapter Summary
Chapter 7: The Synagogue Manumissions
The Date
The Emancipation
The Ongoing Obligations
The Oversight
Chapter Summary
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix: Texts and Translations
Bibliography
Index
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Moder Authors
Index of Subjects.

Edition Notes

Includes Greek inscriptions with English translations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1997.

Series
Texts and studies in ancient Judaism,, 75, Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ;, 75.

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Library of Congress
HT863 .G53 1999

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Pagination
x, 201 p. ;
Number of pages
201

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OL111793M
ISBN 10
3161470419
LCCN
99231984
OCLC/WorldCat
41265229
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6841049

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