RT Article
T1 The (In)frequency of the Name ‘Erastus’ in Antiquity: A Literary, Papyrological, and Epigraphical Catalog
JF New Testament studies
VO 59
IS 4
SP 496
OP 516
A1 Brookins, Timothy
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785740229
AB Three questions have remained central to the Erastus debate (Ἔραστος ὁ οἰκονόμος τῆς πόλɛως, Rom 16.23): the date of IKorinthKent 232, the nature of the office of οἰκονόμος (τῆς πόλɛως), and the frequency of the name ‘Erastus’ in antiquity. The present article focuses on the third issue. Moving beyond Meggitt's earlier research (1996, 1999), the author here furnishes a comprehensive catalog of literary, papyrological, and epigraphical occurrences of the name (in Greek and in Latin) in antiquity. The chief payoff of the catalog is two-fold: (1) it provides, for the first time, comprehensive quantitative evidence that the name was in fact rare; and (2) it reveals a significant dearth of attestations from first-century Greece.
K1 Rom 16.23
K1 IKorinthKent 232
K1 Epigraphy
K1 Corinthians
K1 οἰκονόμος
K1 Name
K1 Erastus
DO 10.1017/S0028688513000155