• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans
  • Beteiligte: Blumell, Lincoln H.
  • Erschienen: Brill, 2016
  • Erschienen in: Journal for the Study of Judaism
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340459
  • ISSN: 0047-2212; 1570-0631
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory ; Religious studies ; History
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identified as a Ἰουδαία she is also styled as an Ἄµα, a title that otherwise only occurs for certain Christian women in late antique Egypt. Thus, this inscription appears to resist a straightforward classification as it employs terminology that straddles religious categories.1</jats:p>