The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporus Kingdom

by E. Leigh Gibson

E. Leigh Gibson analyses a little-known group of Greek inscriptions that record the manumission of slaves in synagogues located on the hellenized north shore of the Black Sea in the first three centuries of the common era. Through a comparison of this corpus with manumission inscriptions from elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and an analysis of Greco-Roman Judaism's own interaction with slavery, she assesses the degree to which the Black Sea Jewish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161470419
• ISBN13: 9783161470417
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.