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by Secret Alias
Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Jose (יוסי) is a hypocorism for Joseph
by Secret Alias
Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:44 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Mordecai is a hypocorism

Mor'de-cai [perhaps, Persian, signifying little man, or the common Babylonian name, a diminutive or hypocoristic form of Merodach (see Esther).]
by Secret Alias
Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:26 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Runia accepts the possibility that "Philo" might have been a hypocorism https://books.google.com/books?id=3JyM1kul504C&pg=PA26&dq="clement"+hypocorism&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2tYG2x9zOAhWIKGMKHXzEB9YQ6AEIPDAG#v=onepage&q=%22clement%22%20hypocorism&f=false
by Secret Alias
Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:21 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Similarly the name "Papias" (of Hierapolis) is a hypocorism. Papias clearly came from a family with deep roots in the region. That is the only possible explanation for his name, which was very common in Phrygia and the surrounding regions and it is typical of Anatolian hypocoristic nicknam...
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:56 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

The case here is probably that of an “extended” root pap(p)a: father, dad; food (Lat. pāpa, pappa; children's word for food, meal, father; pappō –āre: eat), which is used in Greek (just like in Latin) as a hypocorism: πάπας πατρὸς ὑποκόρισμα18; παππίᾱς (father);19 and finally in the verb παππάζειν:...
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:47 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

On the Constantine II from Gibbon: The baptismal name of this emperor was Heraclius; he was renamed Constantine at his coronation, — perhaps because his step-uncle Heraclius had brought discredit on the name. He is Constantine on his coins, and is so called by Nicephorus; but Theophanes calls him Co...
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:27 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Caligula = "little boot" was a hypocorism.
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:23 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part 1)
Replies: 32
Views: 12678

Re: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part

If my friend and I get into a heated debate about where we want to eat out for dinner and I am a Muslim. I say halal pizza. My friend says the rib place. I might find eating at the rib place to be abominable. My friend might like both halal pizza and ribs but like ribs better. You can't necessarily ...
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:20 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part 1)
Replies: 32
Views: 12678

Re: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part

Two camps are pretty straight forward: I don't agree with this statement. In life things can be made simple and straight forward. But it is another matter when we try to get into the head of the writer. What is he really saying? What do you think is the underlying complaint against 'Marcion' in Boo...
by Secret Alias
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:10 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17464

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Caracalla was a hypocorism taken from the name of a long hooded Gallic cloak.