• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The Bible was famously translated to English during the Reformation.

    Previously (mix of Aramaic and Greek here, you can pick one for either, plus I haven’t included their epithets. Like how nowadays we’re known as Firstname Lastname, at the time you’d have a family name and if you were famous, an epithet like Timos of Athens)

    • Simon Peter: Shimoun Bar Younah
    • Andrew: Andreás
    • James Greater: Iacobus
    • John: Iohannes
    • Phillip: Philippos
    • Bartholomew: Bartholomaios
    • Thomas: Toma
    • Matthew: Matisyahu
    • James Lesser: Yaqub
    • Judas Thaddeus: Yahwada
    • Simon: Sumeon or Simo
    • Judas Iscariot: Yehuda
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        11 months ago

        I grew up in the UK and our education system (or at least the one I had) has Religious Education as part of it’s curriculum and under history we study the Reformation, Henry VIII, Martin Luther etc

        Also as a teen I read some of Karen Armstrong’s books. The rest is just… lived experience and google.