of the five disciples of Jesus (discussed in section V below), and also as the name of a scribe who lived in Magdala in the early second century CE, who appears in rabbinic traditions.69 I know of no other literary or epigraphic evidence for the name Nicodemus among Palestinian Jews. The name Gurion (גוריון) or Guria (גוריא, גוריה) is attested only in Josephus and rabbinic literature, and all instances I know, except three rabbis of the name and the father of two rabbis who lived in the period from