Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CEIn this lexicon, Tal Ilan collects all the information on names of Jews in lands east of Palestine, in which Aramaic and Arabic 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, especially the Babylonian Talmud but those mentioned in epigraphic documents, especially incantation bowls in Aramaicare, are also an important factor 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 eastern Diaspora 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 foreign names, and points out the most popular ones. 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 how one can identify a Jew in a mostly non-Jewish society. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Find | 15 |
Exceptions | 28 |
Tables | 44 |
Biblical Names Female | 139 |
Greek Names Female | 153 |
Iranian Names Female | 207 |
Male Arabic Names Male | 257 |
Arabic Names Female | 305 |
Other mostly Semitic Names in Hebrew Characters Female | 406 |
Other mostly Semitic Names in GreekLatin Characters Male | 427 |
Common terms and phrases
1)'s father 1)'s mother according to ShGa Appears in rabbinic Arabic Arabs Harding Aramaic incantation bowls associating authors Babylonia D Babylonico Banu bBer bears the title biblical name bowls as Iranian bowls see Introduction bowls were Jewish bShab CAMIBBM cantation bowl clients contemporary of Rav dating daughter F described died DTTBYML duction 6.7 Dura-Europos Epitaph father F Gordon Greek Hebrew Ibn Hisham ICPIANI identified included indicated inscription interchange Intro Introduction 8.2.1 Introduction 8.5 Iranian see Introduction Isbell Jastrow Jerusalem Jew?³ Joseph Justi Kosowsky Leben Muhammed's Lecker male means mentioned mother F Nippur Palmyra Palmyrene script person Pre-7th C CE4 previous note probably provenance rabbinic literature reading reason to suppose recorded Samuel Sasanian scribal error scribes seal Semitic Shaked son F sources student suffix see vol synagogue tion title Rav tradition transliteration tribe troduction volume vowel
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE Part 4 of Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Ṭal Ilan Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, ISSN 0721-8753 Texts and studies in ancient Judaism |
| Authors | Ṭal Ilan, Kerstin Hünefeld |
| Contributor | Kerstin Hünefeld |
| Publisher | Mohr Siebeck, 2002 |
| ISBN | 3161505514, 9783161505515 |
| Length | 465 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General History / Jewish |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |