TY - JOUR TI - What Can We Learn from Early Jewish Epigraphy? AU - van der Horst, Pieter W. TI - What Can We Learn from Early Jewish Epigraphy? AB - This article presents a concise overview of the most relevant information that can be gleaned from the approx. 4000 Jewish inscriptions from antiquity (c. 300 BCE – 700 CE). Special attention is paid to those areas and topics about which inscriptions are our only (or main) source of information because the ancient Jewish literary sources are silent about them. The stones turn out to be especially relevant to the study of the western diaspora in the Roman and early Byzantine periods.   VL - 2014 IS - Volume 12 PY - 2014 SN - 1733-5760 C1 - 2084-3925 SP - 33 EP - 46 DO - 10.4467/20843925SJ.14.003.2809 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/article/what-can-we-learn-from-early-jewish-epigraphy KW - synagogue KW - age at death KW - women KW - manumission KW - onomastics KW - professions KW - pagan-Jewish relations KW - inscriptions KW - epigraphy KW - Greek language KW - diaspora