Character Consolidation

Introduction

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Identification of three or more different names

Moshe – Vayikra Rabbah
Yitro – Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Yitro Amalek 1, see our discussion in Shemot 18.
Beor and other evil doers – Bavli Sanhedrin 105a
Sichon and other Canaanite kings – Bavli R"H 3a
Shelomo – Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:1
Nevat and other evil doers – Bavli Sanhedrin 101b
Sancheriv and other Assyrian kings – Bavli Sanhedrin 94a
Koresh and other Persian kings – Seder Olam Rabbah 30, Bavli R"H 3b

Identification of two characters with different names as the same person:

Haran the father of Yiska with Haran the brother of Avraham – Bavli Sanhedrin 69b
Potiphar and Potiphera – Bavli Sotah 13b
Hirah and Hiram – Bereshit Rabbah 85:4
Calev the son of Chetzron with Calev the son of Yefuneh – Yerushalmi Yevamot 10:7 (see Ibn Ezra Short Commentary Shemot 24:14)
Ovadyah the steward of Ahav with Ovadyah the prophet – Bavli Sanhedrin 39b

Naamah as Noach's wife – Bereshit Rabbah 23:3
Og as the fugitive from Sedom – Bavli Niddah 61a
Eliezer and Yishmael as Avraham's servants – Bereshit Rabbah 48:13, Vayikra Rabbah 20:2
Dinah as Shimon's wife and Asenat's mother – Bereshit Rabbah 80:11
Menashe as Yosef's steward – Bereshit Rabbah 91:8
Datan and Aviram as the sinners in Egypt and the wilderness – Shemot Rabbah 1:30, Tanchuma Buber Beshalach 24
Calev and Pinchas as Yehoshua's spies – Tanchuma Buber Shelach 1
Eved Melekh HaKushi as Barukh – Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer 53

Paroh in Shemot 1-2 with Paroh of Bereshit 37-50 and Paroh of Shemot 3-15 – see Melekh Chadash
The officers of the nation in Egypt with the princes or seventy elders – Bemidbar Rabbah 12:16, Shemot Rabbah 5:20