This volume contains the papers of a workshop on Jewish   epigraphy in  antiquity organized at Utrecht University in 1992. Among   the participants were  collaborators of the Cambridge Jewish   Inscriptions Project and of the Tubinger  Atlas des Vorderen Orients   project.  Important aspects of ancient Jewish inscriptions are   highlighted in the  papers, like the connection between documentary and   literary texts. Several  papers focus on aspects of the history of   Jewish communities in the diaspora.  Specialists in Jewish epigraphy   will find surveys of parts of the corpus of  Jewish inscriptions (curse   inscriptions, metrical epitaphs,  alphabet-inscriptions) and   discussions of some fixed opinions, and Jewish  inscriptions are   discussed in a wider literary and historical contexts as  well.    CONTENTS:  William Horbury, `Jewish Inscriptions and Jewish Literature   in Egypt, with  Special Reference to Ecclesiasticus'.  Jan Willem van   Henten, `A Jewish Epitaph in a Literary Text: 4 Macc 17:8-10'.  Johan   H.M. Strubbe, 'Curses Against Violation of the Grave in Jewish Epitaphs    from Asia Minor'.  Pieter W. van der Horst, `Jewish Poetical Tomb   Inscriptions'.  Alice J. Bij de Vaate, `Alphabet-Inscriptions from   Jewish Graves'.  David Noy, `The Jewish Communities of Leontopolis and   Venosa'.  Gert Luderitz, `What is the Politeuma?'  Tessa Rajak,   `Inscription and Context: Reading the Jewish Catacombs of Rome'.    Gerard Mussies, `Jewish Personal Names in Some Non-Literary Sources'.    Hanswulf Bloedhorn, `Zur Architektur der Synagogen in der Diaspora'.

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