Yeah, it looks like I misinterpreted the use of the number 449.Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:28 amI believe the 449 in his post is a page number; he is referring to the mention of יהושע on the first page of the Addendum to Part 1, which is page 449.davidlau17 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:22 amI'm familiar with that work - but if you mean to indicate that roughly 103/449 Jewish men in Palestine were named Jesus/Joshua, that's incorrect. There were 449 documented names. But 2,625 documented instances. Joshua was 1 out of the 449 documented names. Instances of the name Joshua were found 103 times among these 2,625 men. In other words, roughly 3.9% of all Palestine Jews from 330 BCE-200 CE were named Joshua.StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:51 am Tal Ilan, in Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Part I, Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE (2002) 56, 126-33, 449 documented 103 men named Joshua, the sixth most popular male name in this collection.
I should also probably mention Tal Ilan used the works of Josephus in that study. Thus, the Jesuses I mentioned in the OP are 10 of those 103 men.
ETA: Also, on page 54 (table 1) I am seeing a total of 721 male names, not 449.
Nevertheless, it's the occurences of names, rather than the names used, that are of interest here. And on that point, I think the numbers I posted are correct - though they're based on a replication of Tal Ilan's study done by Richard Bauckham in 2006. I posted some details on that one in another thread here actually: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5179#p99104