papponymy

plural papponymies

1. countableuncountableThe practice, or an instance, of naming a grandson after his grandfather.

   Papponymy is not documented among Israelites. The only exception, Tahat son of 'Elyada' son of Tahat is doubtful and is not a papponymy sensu stricto.

   1988, Ran Zadok, The Pre-Hellenistic Israelite Anthroponymy and Prosopography, →ISBN

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   He tries to fill these gaps primarily by means of information from several sources: Papponymy (the naming of a grandson after a grandfather) was a common practice during this period.

   2006, Lester L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, →ISBN

   Documented cases of maternal-line papponymy (a child named for a male ancestor on the maternal line) indicate that children born in marriages between women of Greek background (as determined by their fathers' Greek names) and men whose Babylonian names point to Babylonian identity were nearly as likely to bear Greek names as they were to have Babylonian names.

   2014, Julia M. O'Brien, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, →ISBN, page 197