Gaius the Roman Guest
The usual understanding of Gaius in Rom 16.23 as a ‘host’ of the Corinthian Christ group (or the host of travellers to Corinth) is fraught with several difficulties: it implausibly renders ξένος as ‘host’ rather than the much more common ‘guest’; it fails to explain why a ‘host’ would have been name...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 534-549 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gaius, von Korinth, Biblische Person
/ Bible. Römerbrief 16,23
/ Bible. Corinthians 1. 1,14
/ Greek language
/ Noun
/ xenos
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
Further subjects: | B
Latin praenomina
B Rom 16.23 B 1 Cor 1.14 B Gaius B xenos |
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Summary: | The usual understanding of Gaius in Rom 16.23 as a ‘host’ of the Corinthian Christ group (or the host of travellers to Corinth) is fraught with several difficulties: it implausibly renders ξένος as ‘host’ rather than the much more common ‘guest’; it fails to explain why a ‘host’ would have been named so far down Paul's list of those sending greetings; and it fails to explain why Paul refers to this person by his praenomen instead of the more common cognomen. Gaius is not a Corinthian ‘host’, but a Roman ‘guest’ of the Christ group in Corinth. This also implies that Gaius is not a wealthy patron of the Christ group at Corinth. |
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ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000078 |