Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part III: The Western Diaspora, 330 BCE - 650 CE: 126 (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism) - Hardcover

Ilan, Tal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3161496736 ISBN 13: 9783161496738

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2009

Synopsis

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 and 650 CE. The corpus includes names from literary sources, but those mentioned in epigraphic and papyrological documents form the vast majority of the database. Tal Ilan discusses the provenance of the names and explains them etymologically, given the many possible sources of influence 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.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 how one can identify a Jew in a mostly non-Jewish society.

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Tal Ilan, Born 1956; 1991 PhD on Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; since 2003 Professor for Jewish Studies at the Freie Universitat, Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3161496736
• ISBN 13: 9783161496738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 796