- Λιβερτῖνος
- Λιβερτῖνος, ου, ὁ (Lat. loanw.: libertinus, meaning a person who was manumitted; IG XIV, 1781) Freedperson Ac 6:9, a designation for certain Israelites in Jerusalem who had their own synagogue (Schürer II 76; 428, 8; III 133, 26; Ltzm., ZNW 20, 1921, 172; GdeRossi’s attempt, Bull. di arch. christ. 1864, 70; 92f, to interpret CIL, IV 117 as a ref. to an alleged synagogue of freedpersons in Pompeii is rejected Beginn. IV 67). The name describes these people as former slaves or their descendants. The change to Λιβυστίνων, conjectured by Beza in the 16th century (RHarris, ET 6, 1895, 378–90) and listed in Stephan. Byz. (s.v. Λίβυς)=‘Libyans’ (so the Armen. version) is favored by FBlass, Philol. of the Gospels 1898, 69f; Moffatt; Goodsp., Probs. 127–30, but is declared ‘attractive but unnecessary’ by Jackson and Lake, Beginn. III 58; on the relation of Luke’s diction and syntax to decoding of the term s. ISBE II, ’82, 360.—M-M. TW.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.