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Endnote 26 - Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek

Frey, CIJ 788.

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Endnote 25 - Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek

See e.g. Daniel 12:3; 1 Enoch 104:2; 4 Maccabees 17:5; 4 Ezra 7:97 (cf. 2 Esdras 7:125); 2 Baruch 51:10.

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Franz Cumont, Lux Perpetua (Paris: Geuthner, 1949), pp. 142–188, idem, AfterLife in Roman Paganism (New York: Dover, 1959 [1922]), pp. 91–109, esp. pp. 96–106; M. P. Nilsson, Geschichte der griechischen Religion 2nd ed. (Munich: Beck, 1961), vol. 2, pp. 278–279.

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Frey, CIJ 1510.

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Endnote 22 - Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek

Frey, CIJ 1509.

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Richard Lattimore, Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs (Urbana: Illinois Univ. Press, 1942), pp. 192–194, gives abundant references. Of special importance is the study by M. Alexiou and P. Dronke, “The Lament of Jephtha’s Daughter: Themes, Traditions, Originality,” Studi Medievali (3rd ser.) 12 (1971), pp. 819–863, esp. pp. 832–837 on funerary inscriptions.

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For the average age at marriage, probably about 14 or 15 years, see my Ancient Jewish Epitaphs, chap. 7, “Women,” esp. pp. 103–104.

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Leon, Jews of Ancient Rome, p. 186; cf. Schürer, History of the Jewish People, vol. 3, p. 101.

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Endnote 18 - Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek

Frey, CIJ 537, not from Porto, as Frey asserted in CIJ, pp. 396–407; see the corrections by Leon, “The Jewish Community of Ancient Porto,” Harvard Theological Review 45 (1952), pp. 165–175.

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For the extremely complicated demographic problems concerned with the calculation of the age at death, see my Ancient Jewish Epitaphs, pp. 73–84, where the relevant literature is discussed.

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