[MacDV] Re: Happy Easter all!

[Erica Sadun]

At 1:09 PM -0700 4/11/04, <illovox at comcast.net> wrote:
>  > if Jesus was a Jew, why, oh why, the Spanish name?
>
>Maybe he was Sephardic?
>
>Well, that can't be because there were no Sephardic Jews at the time...not
>yet.

Yes, there were.

Sephardim predate Christianity in Spain and Italy.

There's even a synagogue at Herculaneum.


>Oh, and at the time Y'shua walked the Earth, in Hebrew (or Aramaic, whatever
>you want to call it) God was referred to as both male AND female names,

By then Hebrew was mostly a liturgical language and Aramaic was
the common tongue.

Not touching the theological issues, -- Erica