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“For That Is What His Name Means” (Acts 13:8) : Luke’s Etymology of Elymas the Magician

The name Elymas in Acts 13 has long perplexed interpreters. Why this name should provide an alternate to Bar-Jesus has found no answer, and the etymology of Elymas as “magician” has been judged senseless. To explain it, commentators frequently appeal to unlikely Semitic precedents for Elymas or follow Codex Bezae in reading Hetoimas () and associate this figure with Atomos from Josephus’s Antiquities. In contrast, I propose that Josephus’s account of Noah’s genealogy, which speaks of a certain Elymos, forms the background for Luke’s Elymas. This background renders Elyman’s name and etymology sensible, providing a solution to a long-standing exegetical conundrum.

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THE CATHOLIC BIBLICAL QUARTERLY; VOL.84 NO.4 OCTOBER 2022

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p. 609-626

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English

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JOSEPHUS
ELYMAS
BAR-JESUS
ETYMOLOGY
ONOMASTICS
MAGICIAN
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

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Daniel B. Glover

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