Captain Jean Luc Picard asks...

[zorgon]

Captain Jean Luc Picard asks...



No THAT is a very good question...

[petrus4]

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.

[zorgon]

Dunno if I buy that That is why I put it in "Humor" 

BTW  When the ARK landed on Mount Ararat... How did the Kangaroos get back to Australia?