# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tal-ilan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:52:56.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tal-ilan"
name: "Tal Ilan"
slug: "tal-ilan"
description: "Tal Ilan is an Israeli historian, notably of women's history in Judaism, and lexicographer. She is known for her work in rabbinic literature, the history of ancient Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish historiography, Jewish epigraphy, archaeology and papyrology, onomastics, and ancient Jewish magic. She is the initiator and director of The Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud (FCBT). She received her education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ilan, now retired, was a professor for Jewish Studies with focus on late antiquity at the Free University of Berlin."
tagline: "Historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Tal_ilan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             1.71875
  historical:           7.2108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2608378/"
    handle:    "nm2608378"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "তাল ইলান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%9F"
    title: "טל אילן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7678707"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1603249"
    title: "Tal Ilan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump