Captain Jean Luc Picard asks...
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No THAT is a very good question...
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All of those names are English translations of popular Jewish names. Simon sounds vaguely Greek, and Peter is informal Latin. Jesus is a Greek epithet for Yeshua. English at least tends to translate the Hebrew Y as a J; so Binyamin becomes Benjamin, and so on. The Hebrew alphabet also isn't divorced from phoenetics like English is; each of the letters are pronounceable. "MI-CHA-EL," for example, consists of three words, the last of which is a name of God.
The two main sources we have for the New Testament, AFAIK, are the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate; so it makes sense that you're going to see translations of Hebrew names in those two languages.
Dunno if I buy that :P That is why I put it in "Humor" :D
BTW When the ARK landed on Mount Ararat... How did the Kangaroos get back to Australia?
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