Tal Ilan

Tal Ilan (; born 1956) is an Israeli historian, notably of women's history in Judaism, and lexicographer. She is known for her work in rabbinic literature, the history of ancient Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish historiography, Jewish epigraphy, archaeology and papyrology, onomastics, and ancient Jewish magic. Ilan, now retired, was a professor for Jewish Studies with focus on late antiquity at the Free University of Berlin .

Early life and education Tal Ilan was born on January 24, 1956, on Kibbutz Lahav in the Negev desert.

Ilan's work " A Digital Synopsis of the Mishnah and Tosefta", in collaboration with Hayim Lapin, is a digital research tool that uses computerized and manual text analysis to evaluate the relationship between the Mishnah and the Tosefta. This project is funded by the NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program. She describes herself as a secular Jew and an atheist.

Works

Books Women in Greco-Roman Palestine (1995; repr., Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996) Mine and Yours are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature, Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judaismus Integrating Women into Second Temple History (1999) Silencing the Queen (2006) Massekehet Taanit (Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud. 2008) Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: 330 BCE - 650 CE (4 vols. 2002-2012) The New Jewish Inscriptions from Hierapolis and the Question of Jewish Diaspora Cemeteries Scripta classica Israelica: 25-28 Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (2006) Josephus and the Rabbis (2017) Mishnah Yevamot (unpublished)

Selected essays Reprinted in Integrating Women, pp. 217–33. “‘Men Born of Woman ...’ (Job 14:1): The Phenomenon of Men Bearing Metronymes at the Time of Jesus,” Novum Testamentum 34 (1992) 23-45.

“Jewish Studies and Women Studies: Where and When do they Meet?” Jewish Studies Quarterly 3 (1996) 162-73. "Names of the Hasmoneans,” The Jewish Quarterly Review 78 (1987) 1-20. “The New Jewish Inscriptions from Hierapolis and the Question of Jewish Diaspora Cemeteries,” Scripta Classica Israelica 25 (2006) 71-86.

Selected chapters

“Shelamzion Alexandra,” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Oxford University Press; 2000) 872-4. “Joseph und Aseneth,” Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2001) 577.