“India” in Early Jewish Literature

Several Jewish sources from late antiquity use the name India for what is patently not the country on the Asian subcontinent we call India today. In the light of Graeco-Roman usage in sources of the same period it becomes clear that the country meant is either Ethiopia or (a part of) Arabia.

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Main Author: van der Horst, Pieter W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2015, Volume: 46, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 574-579
Further subjects:B India Ethiopia Arabia Himyar Kush Hodu
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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