Latin names around a counter-cultural Paul

Edwin Judge

Latin names around a counter-cultural Paul

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Abstract

In an 'eye-witness account' of 'going to church in the first century' we hear from one 'Publius Valerius Amicius Rufus'. He was visiting Rome from Philippi. There is indeed a Publius Valerius Rufus of Philippi, attested in a Roman inscription, but a century later (AD 144). The additional cogomen (Amicius) is in any case improbable. Yet it was right to have taken the Rufus whose mother protected Paul (Rom 16:13) as a Roman citizen. It was a historically dignified name. And there are far too many Latin names around St Paul for them to be explained mostly as loan-words domesticated into the Greek namestock.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Bible and the business of life
Subtitle of host publication	essays in honour of Robert J. Banks's sixty-fifth birthday
Editors	Simon Carey Holt, Gordon Preece
Place of Publication	Hindmarsh, Australia
Publisher	ATF Press
Pages	68-84
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	1920691243
Publication status	Published - 2004

Publication series

Name	ATF Series
Publisher	ATF Press
Number	12

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