Speaking names in the apocryphal "Acts of John"

The extant text of the apocryphal Acts of John contains twenty-six names. The present article argues that more than half of these names, i.e., sixteen names, fall into the category of so-called "speaking names." In scholarship on Greco-Roman comedy, the technical term "speaking names&...

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Main Author: Paschke, Boris 1976- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2015]
In: Apocrypha
Year: 2015, Volume: 26, Pages: 119-149
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Acts of John / Aptronym
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Acts of John
B Name
Parallel Edition:Electronic