Since everything took place in Iran,Turkey,Iraq, at a time when western civilization was, I guess the Roman Empire and Greese.Were names changed when the bible was printed?. And wasn't that Germany? I can't figure it out.If the bible is THE word of GOD than why not use the orginal names especially of the authors of the stories?
2006-11-02 06:23:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The names have been Anglacized for our benefit.
In Spanish, Matthew is Mateo, Peter is Pedro, Jesus is Jesus, etc.
2006-11-02 06:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The English are made out of a blended bag of Germanic human beings from throughout northern Europe. those communities incorporate mutually with, Anglo Saxons [Saxons], Jutes, Angles, Danes, Vikings, Normans and Brythonic Celts. jointly, the English and the Celts [the Welsh and Cornish] grew to become ordinary because of the fact the British. It does sound slightly complicated, however the uncomplicated rule regarding being English and Welsh is you have have been given to come again from Germanic inventory. each and every of the communities reported above are Germanic. So while you're from one or different of those, then you definitely are English and/or Welsh. do no longer overlook with reference to the Welsh bit when you consider which you would be surprised merely how lots Welsh blood there is interior the English inventory. by way of getting the form of connection it takes your ancestory returned approximately 10,000 years in Breten - the Island human beings.
2016-12-09 01:25:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were translating mostly from Koine Greek. It was a vernacular lingua franca developed from the nature of middle eastern international trade. The original names at that time likely were given pretty close to what they translated to. Jesus, Peter, Paul or the others are not Anglo or Saxon names. Names like Ethelbart Hardrada, Beowulf and so on are Anglo and Saxon names.
The fact that you would regard a name like Simon or Daniel as Anglo names just shows how far and how complete the Christian Cult suppressed what it over ran.
Henry, Wencelaus, Bodicca, Hienz, Merlin, Thor, Loki, Freya, Lief, Eric, Ethelred, Canute, etc. Those are samples of Anglo-Saxon and Norse names.
2006-11-02 06:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know that this is going out on a limb, but do you think that possibly those people had their names BEFORE the Bible was written? That perhaps the names spread throughout the world along with the Bible? That they are considered Anglo-Saxon because the Roman Empire covered all of Europe at one time and children born into newly christian families were named after saints?
Folks, this isn't rocket science.... They are all Jewish names. Have been since the time of Moses and Abraham.
2006-11-02 07:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by Electro760 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A few folks have gotten it 90% right. But just to get it down here clearly.....
Mary is from Miriam (like Moses' sister), Joseph is, well, Yoseph (like Jacob's penultimate son). Both are Hebrew. Which makes a lot of sense, since they were Jewish. (Mary would have known as Miriam bat Yo'achim v' Hannah. Joseph was either ben Ya'aqov or ben Heli, depending on which lineage is followed.)
Peter is actually a second name given to one of the Simons (well, probably Simeon, also Hebrew). It's from the Greek for rock, petra. James is from Latin, via French, Iacomus. That in turn is from the Greek Iacobus, which is from the Hebrew Ya'aqov (Jacob).
Someone above put it quite well, that the English versions became very popular because of the celebrities' connections.
2006-11-02 09:18:30 · answer #5 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the names that you mentioned were either Hebrew or Greek. Not Anglo-Saxon. I'm sure the Anglo-Saxons used the names but they weren't the first ones.
2006-11-02 06:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those names are originally Jewish! The names you read in the Bible are Anglicanized spellings, but they are not Anglican names. Most people (many centuries ago in Europe) who named their sons or daughters that did so because the original "celebrity" owners of those names were people in very good standing with God.
2006-11-02 06:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Try reading a Spanish Bible. You are too funny! English is for English speaking people.
2006-11-02 06:26:48 · answer #8 · answered by mediocritis 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why does my spanish bible has spanish names?
Maybe it's because of the language we speak?
of course this is just a guess.
2006-11-02 06:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's because you are reading an English translation. Translations in other languages have names in that language.
2006-11-02 06:26:49 · answer #10 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋