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daywalker:

--- Quote from: Duane on June 25, 2011, 06:23:42 PM ---Did anyone ever ponder why the Bible names of the disciples,  "leading characters", as well as the books of the Bible have such an English sound to them?  Adam, Samson, David, Moses, John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Timothy, Titus, Araham etc? 
Wouldn't it seem more realisitic, knowing the Bible was of another culture and language of Greek and Hebrew--that the twelve disciples would have names like:  Sabtecheh, Havilah, Sabtah, Ahazuerus, Ashkanaz, Riphath and Togarmah?
Or, children's Bible stories:  Mazraim and Goliath, Dodanim and the whale, instead of Mary and Joseph-try: Milchah and Chedorlaomer?
sounds  TOO convenient for me--

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Well, there are some pretty intense names in the bible too: King Nebuchadrezzar, Melchizedek, Belteshazzar, Beelzebub, Lo-ruhamah; to name of few. Sure, some of these may not seem too bad, but that's only because we've heard their names so many times.

Let's also not forget that today's "English" is really the mutt of all languages. It's been heavily influenced by Latin, Spanish, French, Old English, German, Hebrew, Greek, etc, etc. So that's a large reason why some of these names have such an "English sound to them". Remember even words like "savior" and "salvation", "redemption", "eternal" and "eternity", didn't originate from English but from Latin.


Daywalker  8)

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