Two Epithets of Mark the Evangelist: Coptic <i>theorimos</i> and Byzantine Greek θεόπτης

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  • Sameh Farouk Soliman

Abstract

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 theorimos and taken to convey the Greek θεόπτης.

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2014-04-09

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