Identifying the Jewish Eupolemoi
An Onomastic Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4007397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Søren Lund Sørensen (University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-35 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2097 • E-ISSN: 2056-6689 |
| Publisher | Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.18647/3209/jjs-2015 |
| OpenAlex | W389470738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Jewish ambassador Eupolemos, who was sent on an embassy to the Romans by Judas Maccabee, is generally thought to be identical to his namesake, the Jewish historian mentioned by Clemens of Alexandria and Eusebios. This is due to the apparent rarity of his name, Eupolemos, among Jews. The present article undertakes an onomastic investigation into the name Eupolemos among the Jews in antiquity in order to discover whether an identification of the two namesakes is plausible. By providing a geographical, chronological and onomastic investigation, the author argues that it is in fact very likely that Eupolemos the ambassador and Eupolemos the historian were one and the same person
Archaeology · Genealogy · Identification (biology · Judaism · Order (exchange · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |