<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Micha Berger via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Need a Hasmonean who calls himself "Jannus" in Latin necessarily go<br>
by the same name or even a phonetically related name in Aramaic and<br>
Hebrew?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't follow: the Hasmonean and post-Hasmonean kings did all have both Hebrew and Greek or Latin names, but Yannai is a *Hebrew* name, from the same root as Yona. I know someone who Hebraized his surname from Taubmann to Yannai ("Taub" is German for "dove").</div></div></div></div>