“India” in Early Jewish Literature
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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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See L. H. Feldman, Flavius Josephus, vol. 3: Judean Antiquities 1-4 (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 14-15. For a map showing the interconnectedness of the four rivers of Paradise see Alexander, “Early Jewish Geography,” 979. On the Nile-Ganges-Indus connection in Greco-Roman literature see also Schneider, L’Éthiopie et l’Inde, 35-40.
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For more references see M. Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2002), 380-81.
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See, e.g., G. D. Newby, A History of the Jews of Arabia from Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), 57-59.
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“India” in Early Jewish Literature
In: Journal for the Study of JudaismSearch for other papers by Pieter W. van der Horst in
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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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