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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnIoannes}{\John: aka `John.'
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The Greek rendering of Hebrew Yehochanan/Yochanan — "YHWH is gracious" —
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already an ancient name by NT times, and, per the historical record, the fifth most popular
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male name among Jews in Judea during the Second Temple period. The Septuagint attests earlier
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bearers of the name (e.g. Ioanan, firstborn son of Josiah, 1 Chronicles 3:15), so IOANNES
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carried no distinctive resonance the way IESOUS or MARIAM did — it was, by NT times, simply
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one of the most common Jewish names in circulation, the "John" or "Jack" of its day.
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\fnPar{}
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Two major, unrelated figures in the FNT bear this name: IOANNES the Baptising [one] (son of ZACHARIAS
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and ELISABET) and IOANNES the disciple, son of Zebedee. The Greek text does not distinguish
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them by spelling — both are simply IOANNES — and disambiguates, as English does, by context,
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patronymic, or epithet ("the Baptising [one]," "son of Zebedee," "the one Iesous loved").
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}
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\fi |