Timeline for Naming after the Patriarchs/Matriarchs and Biblical heroes
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 18:59 | comment | added | Seth J | @DonielF, see my response to DoubleAA above. I don't know that those exceptions disprove my observation, or strengthen it by limiting it. Perhaps there were biblical names used with greater frequency than I thought, but now it seems like some names were strictly off-limits (eg., Avraham and Moshe; perhaps others?). Maybe my question was off in its focus, and maybe it is stronger if, instead of broadly including biblical heroes, it is limited to biblical super-heroes. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 6:13 | comment | added | DonielF | Don't forget about the Amoraim Shmuel, Levi, R' Yosef, R' Yehoshua Ben Levi and his father, R' Doniel bar Ketina, R' Nachman, Chizkiyah and Yehudah sons of Chiya, R' Chiya bar Yosef's father, R' Yehudah bar Yechezkel and his father, R' Shimon Ben Lakish, R' Chagai, the grandmother of Rabbah bar bar Chanah... I almost feel like the question's invalid because of how many Amoraim and Tannaim actually have names from Tanach. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 21:27 | comment | added | Seth J | @user6591, yup. Go right ahead. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | user6591 | @Seth I guess I reminded you about this question when I upvoted it this morning?:) I was going to ask something similar. I still might. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 16:19 | comment | added | mevaqesh | Not sure what you mean by well into the period of the Rishonim. Offhand, most of the 11th, 12th, and early 13th century Rishonim I can think of had Biblical names. Rif; Yitzchak, Ri Migash; Yosef, Rambam; Moshe, Rashi; Shlomo, Rabbenu Tam; Yaakov, Ri (Hazaken); Yitzchak, Ramban; Moshe, Rahba; Sh'lomo, Rashbam; Sh'muel, Raavad; Avraham. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 14:24 | vote | accept | Seth J | ||
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 5:24 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Numbers 13:7 | |
| Oct 27, 2013 at 16:26 | answer | added | wfb | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 17:47 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Another Tanach example is Yishmael ben Netanya, the murderer of Gedaliah ben Achikam. | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 23:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/327195443371069441 | ||
| Apr 24, 2013 at 22:28 | comment | added | Charles Koppelman | highly related (but the inverse): judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/3252/… | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 18:18 | comment | added | Seth J | @DoubleAA, you make a good point, but the pool is smaller, and the time span is shorter. This way, although there are more individual exceptions, I don't believe the number of exceptions disproves the premise, since that the incidence does not seem any greater, given the greater span of generations and the larger pool of leaders. | |
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| Apr 24, 2013 at 17:31 | comment | added | Fred | ... Not to mention Rabbi Ya'akov (the Tanna), Rabbi Ya'akov ben Chananaya, Rabbi Ya'akov Ish K'far Chananya, and Rabbi Ya'akov ben Kurshai. | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 17:18 | comment | added | Fred | @IsaacMoses There are plenty of Chazal named after Ya'akov Avinu, including: Rabbi Ya'akov bar Idi, Rav Acha bar Ya'akov, Rav Ya'akov bar Acha, Rav Ya'akov miNahar P'kod, Rav Ya'akov b'reih d'vas Sh'mu'el, Rav Ya'akov b'reih d'vas Ya'akov, Rav Ya'akov bar Giyuri, Rabbi Ya'akov bar Nachmani, Rabbi Eli'ezer ben Ya'akov, and Rav Ya'akov bar Abba. | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 16:35 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Your question is stronger if you limit it to tanach times. There are very very few duplicate names (among famous people) in tanach. (Menashe hamelech and yehoshua hakohein hagadol come to mind.) | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 15:55 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @SethJ As R' 'Akiva famously taught us, it's never too late. | |
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| Apr 24, 2013 at 15:53 | comment | added | Seth J | @IsaacMoses, argh, I actually meant to include 'Akiva. I have been sufficiently convinced in the past that it could be a nickname for Ya'akov that I deliberately did not include it in my sentence beginning "I base my assumption." | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 15:51 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Another possible counterexample: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/306/… On Yishma'el: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/73/naming-after-bad-people/… | |
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| Apr 24, 2013 at 15:38 | history | asked | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |