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Tal Ilan (* 1956 ) is an Israeli historian and Judaist . She is considered an expert on the Jewish history of late antiquity.

Career

Tal Ilan grew up in Kibbutz Lahav near Beersheba . After studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , she did her doctorate with Menachem Stern with a thesis on Jewish Women in Palestine during the Hellenistic-Roman Period (332 BCE – 200 CE) . Visiting professorships outside Israel took her to England and the USA, among others. Since 2003 she has been teaching at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

In addition to the general history of late antiquity, the focus of her work is on researching gender aspects in rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Bible , as well as in the field of Jewish onomastics .

Tal Ilan speaks Hebrew, English and German. She is married and has two kids.

Research projects

• Lexicon of Jewish Names - registration of all Jewish names and persons in antiquity in Palestine and in the diaspora
• Creation of a scientific feminist commentary on the Mo'ed order ("festival times") of the Babylonian Talmud
• Co-editor of lectio difficilior , the first internet journal for feminist exegesis, hermeneutics and associated research areas (classical philology, archeology, Egyptology, Near Eastern sciences, ancient history, art history, social sciences, psychology, etc.) in Europe. The magazine offers specialist articles, a forum for discussions and “work in progress” as well as book guides in three languages ​​(German, English and French). Lectio difficilior is non-denominational and offers European scientists in particular the opportunity to present their own research contributions to a special audience for discussion without long waiting periods.

Publications

• Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. An Inquiry into Image and Status. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1995 ( Texts and Studies on Ancient Judaism. Volume 44).
• Mine and Yours are Hers. Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature. Brill, Leiden 1997 ( works on the history of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Volume 41).
• Integrating Jewish Women into Second Temple History. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999 ( Texts and Studies on Ancient Judaism. Volume 76).
• Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity. Part I - Palestine 300 BCE – 200 CE. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002 ( Texts and Studies on Ancient Judaism. Volume 91).
• Silencing the Queen. The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and other Jewish Women . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006 ( Texts and Studies on Ancient Judaism. Volume 115).
• with Tamara Or, Dorothea M. Salzer, Christiane Steuer, Irina Wandrey (Eds.): A Feminist Commentary to the Babylonian Talmud. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007ff.
• Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity. Part III - The Western Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008 ( Texts and Studies on Ancient Judaism. Volume 126).

Web links

• Homepage at the FU Berlin
• Literature by and about Tal Ilan in the catalog of the German National Library