Two Epithets of Mark the Evangelist: Coptic <i>theorimos</i> and Byzantine Greek θεόπτης
This Coptic epithet, understood as “beholder of God,” has no known Greek origin: it may be a corruption of θεορρήμων, said of Mark, which came to be misspelled as <em>theorimos</em> and taken to convey the Greek θεόπτης.
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Duke University
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/15001 |