The Atticist movement and its impact on word study

The Atticist movement (beginning in the 1st century AD, peaking in the 2nd century) was a literary trend where educated writers deliberately revived old Classical/Attic Greek vocabulary and style, rejecting common Koine as vulgar. This means that some texts from the NT era use archaic word meanings, creating a misleading picture if scholars don't account for it. Al Wolters demonstrated that several occurrences of authenteo-related words cited by egalitarians come from Atticist writers who were deliberately using archaic, Classical-era meanings. These should not be counted as evidence for how the word functioned in everyday Koine Greek, which is the language of the NT.