A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans

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" A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans "
Lincoln H. Blumell

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075384
Doc. No	:	LA119013
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340459‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Lincoln H. Blumell
Title & Author	:	A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans [Article]\ Lincoln H. Blumell
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/3
Page No	:	310–329
Abstract	:	This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah.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. This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah.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.
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	epitaphs
Descriptor	:	Inscriptions
Descriptor	:	Roman period
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340459‬