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Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Tal Ilan

Tal Ilan collects all Jewish names used in lands west of Palestine between 330 BCE and 650 CE, where Greek and Latin were spoken. The names are drawn from literary sources as well as epigraphic and papyrological documents. Ilan discusses the origins of the names, their etymologies, and trends in name giving at the time. She analyzes the division between biblical and foreign names and identifies the most popular names. The book also profiles the individuals mentioned and their identities.

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Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Tal Ilan

Tal Ilan collects all Jewish names used in lands west of Palestine between 330 BCE and 650 CE, where Greek and Latin were spoken. The names are drawn from literary sources as well as epigraphic and papyrological documents. Ilan discusses the origins of the names, their etymologies, and trends in name giving at the time. She analyzes the division between biblical and foreign names and identifies the most popular names. The book also profiles the individuals mentioned and their identities.

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TAL ILAN

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity


Part III: The Western Diaspora, 330 BCE 650 CE
in collaboration with Thomas Ziem

[Lexikon jdischer Namen in der Sptantike. Teil 3: Westliche Diaspora 330 v. Chr. 650 n. Chr.]

Published in English.
In this lexicon, Tal Ilan collects all the information on names of Jews in lands west of Palestine,
in which Greek and Latin was spoken, and on the people who bore them between 330 BCE, a
date which marks the Hellenistic conquest of East, and 650 CE, approximately the date when
the Muslim conquest of East and the southern Mediterranean basin was completed. The corpus
includes names from literary sources, but those mentioned in epigraphic and papyrological
documents form the vast majority of the database. This lexicon is an onomasticon in as far as it
is a collection of all the recorded names used by the Jews of the western Diaspora in the above-
mentioned period. Tal Ilan discusses the provenance of the names and explains them
etymologically, given the many possible sources of in uence for the names at that time. In
addition she shows the division between the use of biblical names and the use of Greek, Latin
and other foreign names, and points out the most popular names. This book is also a
prosopography since Ilan analyzes the identity of the persons mentioned therein.
The lexicon is accompanied by a lengthy and comprehensive introduction that scrutinizes the
main trends in name giving current at the time. A large part of it is devoted to the question of
2008. XXVI, 770 pages. how one can identify a Jew in a mostly non-Jewish society.
TSAJ 126

ISBN 978-3-16-149673-8
cloth 199,00 Tal Ilan Born 1956; 1991 PhD on Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine at the Hebrew
ISBN 978-3-16-151459-3 University in Jerusalem; since 2003 Professor for Jewish Studies at the Freie Universitt, Berlin.
eBook PDF 199,00
Thomas Ziem No biographic information available.

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