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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
Yes this is well possible. But I haven't found any evidence for the name SILAS being used as a short form of SILVANUS in a Greek-Roman context. I'd be glad to read about that.
If this is true, the two names would look alike just by incidence. Same as JUTTA in Germany: This is a German form of Judith and a Germanic name of its own right. The latter fact helped a lot to make the biblical name popular in Germany.
The biblical SILAS was a Jew, so I'd rather explain his name from SAUL.
If this is true, the two names would look alike just by incidence. Same as JUTTA in Germany: This is a German form of Judith and a Germanic name of its own right. The latter fact helped a lot to make the biblical name popular in Germany.
The biblical SILAS was a Jew, so I'd rather explain his name from SAUL.
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