Name Covenant: Invitation to Friendship: Strategies for the Threshold #3 - Hardcoverby Anne Hamilton (Author) Abram became Abraham. Jacob became Israel. Simon became Peter. Name covenanting seems at first like an archaic long discarded practice that disappeared in the first century around the time Saul became Paul. The patriarchs and apostles exchanged names and so received new destinies. But that was then. And this is now. However name covenanting never went away. Robert Louis Stevenson became Teriitera. Paul Gauguin became Tioka.