RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
June 28, 2014 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(June 28, 2014 at 1:24 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
Um, they are now English names because people name their kids after Bible characters.
Speaking of names you just made a very important point. A lot of muslim parents name their boys Mohammed. But some muslims go off the deep end when people draw Mohammed. So if someone drew a caricature of a funny looking guy named Mohammed and titled it "Mohammed Unhinged" would the fanatics demand that the artist be beheaded for offending their prophet when the drawing was actually about someone else?
Some Saudis won't reveal the names of their female relatives to outsiders. http://www.arabnews.com/node/267149
Could the Bible writers' practices of using aliases for the main characters be a method of protecting them from evil forces? Ulysses used that tactic when he told the Cyclops Polyphemos that his name was "Nobody". He stabbed the Cyclops in the eye and when his friends asked Polyphemos who did it the Cyclops replied "Nobody" did it. Ulysses thus evaded immediate retribution but Poseidon eventually caused Ulysses ten years of hardship for harming his son.
A lot of the Bible characters used aliases, including Jesus.