[MacDV] Re: Happy Easter all!

[Erica Sadun]

>on 4/12/04 10:36 AM, Benjamin Ing at vbing at mac.com wrote:
>
>>  Is it a chicken or egg? Was Jesus a Spanish name before Christianity,
>>  or did it become popular because of Christianity?
>
>Huh?  The two are not related questions...although this is fun to dissect.
>Chicken and egg are of same being, one stage of the other.  Spanish and
>Christianity are not stages of the same thing.  Spanish existed before
>Christ, his birth name was not in Spanish, and he was not Spanish, and he
>was Jewish.  There were many translations of the 2nd book, and the Ladino
>name stuck at some point.

Spanish certainly did not exist before Christ.

According to the Christian Gospels, Jesus was a Jew
whose Aramaic/Hebrew name was the equivalent of the English
Joshua.

Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, for the curious) dates approximately
to the 1400's.

-- Erica
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