Karen B. Stern is assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa.
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual, of the Association for Jewish Studies Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion This thought-provoking book takes a new approach to the graffiti found in holy sites, tombs and sometimes civic structures. ---Juan P. Lewis, Journal of Religion & Society This thought-provoking book takes a new approach to the graffiti found in holy sites, tombs and sometimes civic structures, regarding them as words that do things rather than simply record a visit. ---David Frankfurter, Journal of Roman Studies