Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part I: Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part I: Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE

by Tal Ilan
Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part I: Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part I: Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE

by Tal Ilan

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Overview

In this lexicon Tal Ilan collects all the information on names of Jews in Palestine and the people who bore them between 330 BCE, a date which marks the Hellenistic conquest of Palestine, and 200 CE, the date usually assigned to the close of the mishnaic period, and the early Roman Empire. Thereby she includes names from literary sources as well as those found in epigraphic and papyrological documents. It is an onomasticon in as far as it is a collection of all the recorded names used by the Jews of Palestine in the above-mentioned period. 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 and other foreign names. She analyzes the identity of the persons and the choice of name and points out the most popular names at the time. The lexicon is accompanied by a lengthy and comprehensive introduction that scrutinizes the main trends in name giving current at the time. It provides immediate information on all known persons of Jewish extraction from Palestine during the Hellenistic and Early Roman Period.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783161476464
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Publication date: 07/01/2002
Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism , #91
Edition description: Multilingu
Pages: 484
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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