Re: CHAT: Zoroastrian influences on Post-exilic Judaism

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Cathy Whitlock wrote:

>In a message dated 7/27/2000 2:41:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
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><< Steg wrote:
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> > Although, interesting from a sociological point of view, both Esther and
> > Mordekhai's non-Hebrew names aren't just non-Jewish, but come from Ishtar
> > and Marduk, Babylonian deities!  Imagine the amount of assimilation that
> > could lead to that - ¿ever heard of a Jew named Jesús? :-)
>
> There are certainly Jews named "Natalie" = "Christmas-child". >>
>
>totally a tangent- really just an observation- I've met many hispanic
>catholics named Moisés, teh trnaslation of Moses, yet never any Jews named
>Moses :P
Scads of Abrahams and a not a few Isacs as well. Of course, there's
millions of Jesuses. :)

Padraic.

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