Marginal or Monumental? "Kokhim" in the Catacombs of Rome, in Eric M. Meyers and Sean P. Burrus (eds.), The Practice and Materiality of Jewish Death (Eisenbrauns: Duke Judaic Studies, forthcoming)

Abstract for AJS 2013 Seminar, Materiality of Jewish Death Session One on “Communities and Contexts”: This contribution examines the arrangements of the distinctive tomb form known as the “kokh” (pl. “kokhim”) within certain areas of the catacomb of the Vigna Randanini in Rome, drawing attention to their characteristics and organization in light of the kokh’s limited presence in the other catacombs of Rome during the third and fourth centuries CE. It will be included in forthcoming publication of Eric M. Meyers and Sean P. Burrus, The Practice and Materiality of Jewish Death (forthcoming in Duke Judaic Series, Eisenbrauns).Book chapter presented at the Association for Jewish Studies seminar on The Practice and Materiality of Jewish Death (2013)