2007-04-15 05:20:31 · 9 answers · asked by 123kid 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They did not have surnames. It would be "of this city" or "son of this father" or "daughter of this father".
Example,
Mary would be Mary, daughter of Heli
Joseph would be Joseph son of Jacob
John would be John son of Zebedee
Luke may have been called Luke of Phillippee.
2007-04-15 05:23:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People in Bible times did not really have last names like we do today. People frequently went by something similar to “Simon, son of Jonah” (Matthew 16:17). The phrase “son of Jonah” identified Simon as a different Simon than all the other Simons. This functioned very closely to a last name. Others used their occupation as a functional last name “Simon the tanner” (Acts 10:6). Jesus was sometimes called “Jesus of Nazareth” identifying where He was from (Matthew 26:71; John 18:5). The name “Jesus Christ” refers to “Jesus, who is the Christ / Messiah.”
2007-04-15 17:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schneb missed Matthew son of Alphaeus. I can find nothing on Mark's parents except that his mother was an early Christian in Jerusalem. Surnames probably developed from the Jewish prototype of distinguishing people thru their patrimony, as in Yeshua bar-Yosef bar-somebody bar-somebody_else... bar-David.
Nowadays, with so many John Smiths around, maybe we should adopt a longer naming system in order to distinguish ourselves from the hundred or so people that bear similar names. Or maybe one of these days we would have numbers attached to our names, like Natasha666 Thead.
2007-04-15 13:05:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with schneb. I do however take exception to cws' phrase "later in more civilized cultures" Apparently someone doesn't watch the news or read the news or simply see what is truly going on around him. Civilized?
2007-04-15 12:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by doc_up72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In that point in history, people did not have nor use surnames. That came along much later in civilized cultures
Note To Doc_Up: I didn't say "More civilized cultures" as you can see above... I said "later in civilized cultures"
2007-04-15 12:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No surnames are listed in the Bible for them. However, it does list their parents names "so-and-so son of so-and-so" which was the common practice in those days.
2007-04-15 12:23:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah Ann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of Nazareth
2007-04-15 12:23:33 · answer #7 · answered by Sidney M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windsor.
2007-04-15 12:23:01 · answer #8 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the carpenters wife and the carpenters sons or mary the wife of the carpenter etc
2007-04-15 12:24:24 · answer #9 · answered by gasp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋