Do you have a Semitic/Biblical name?

[Trog]

Yes, in the Book of Daniel, which Protestants omitted. Also the same name as an ancient city of Persia and the Elamites. However, it is still hebrew in origin. One of the ways which my family deviated from the Irish was to give everyone a Biblical name rather than a Gaelic one.

[Loki]

Yes, in the Book of Daniel, which Protestants omitted.

You mean the name has been omitted from the Protestant Bible versions in the book of Daniel? Because Daniel certainly exists in all of them.

[Megrez]

My name is Teutonic.

[Murphy]

Yes, in the Book of Daniel, which Protestants omitted. Also the same name as an ancient city of Persia and the Elamites. However, it is still hebrew in origin. One of the ways which my family deviated from the Irish was to give everyone a Biblical name rather than a Gaelic one.

Babylon ?

[Logan]

My first name is a place name taken from the Old Testament.

Bable





No for myself.

[Trog]

You mean the name has been omitted from the Protestant Bible versions in the book of Daniel? Because Daniel certainly exists in all of them.

The Books In Question
The Catholic Bible has seven books and parts of two others in the Old Testament that are not found in Protestant Bibles1. Catholics refer to these books as the Deutercanonical books while Protestants refer to them as apocryphal books. The books in question are the following:

Tobit
Judith
The Book of Wisdom
Sirach (also called Ecclesiaticus)
Baruch
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Seven chapters in the book of Esther4
Two chapters and a prayer in the book of Daniel5

But how did these books find their way into the Catholic Bible and why do Protestants dispute them? To answer these questions we will look at the Bible from the time of Christ through the period of the Reformation.



Susanna or Shoshana (Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, Modern Šošana Tiberian Šôšannâ: "lily") included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. It is one of the additions to Daniel, considered apocryphal by Protestants. It is listed in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England among the books which are included in the Bible but not used for the formation of doctrine.[1] It is not included in the Jewish Tanakh and is not mentioned in early Jewish

[Osweo]

Yes, in the Book of Daniel, which Protestants omitted. Also the same name as an ancient city of Persia and the Elamites. However, it is still hebrew in origin. One of the ways which my family deviated from the Irish was to give everyone a Biblical name rather than a Gaelic one.

The city of Shusha/Susa is a coincidence, and of pre-Semitic origin anyway.

As for the Irish, Biblical names were almost the rule until my generation. Almost all men are called Michael, John or James. ALL women are called Mary.

That is because they are self-haters; Europe was built on mostly Christian pillars. Even the most anti-Christian person can admit that.

You doubtless had me in mind. Actually, though, thinking about it, Europe may owe more to Caesar than the Apostles. We only got Christianity because the Romans adopted it. Christendom is, after all, wider than Europe. Ask our Assyrian members, or go and count the churches in Cairo. During the Crusades, our ancestors regarded the local Christians almost as foreign as the Muslims, despite professing to stand for Christendom. There is something more at work here.

Rome was a European response to civilisation, as encountered among the ancient Near Easterners. The nature of the Roman response was absorbed readily by the Italics' European kin - the Celts and Germans. Greece had its own take on this, and passed it onto the Slavs, once it had come under Roman influence itself. Other groups on the continent got swept along by the rest.

Non-European parts of the Roman Empire - in the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia and beyond - fell away from this cultural whole as soon as they could. They were in many parts still largely Christian, however. They lacked the ethnic connection... Perhaps its older and more fundamental than Caesar too.

[Transhumanist]

Susanna or Shoshana (Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, Modern Šošana Tiberian Šôšannâ: "lily") included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

My Armenian great-grandmother's name was Shoushan.

[Humanophage]

My first name is Greek. My surname is derived from a first name of Semitic origins. It is, however, one of the most common surnames among ethnic Russians (in the top 100).

Both are widely used all over Europe without any alterations save for suffixes - well, with a couple of exceptions in small nations. Huzzah for my name. It is technically somewhat pedestrian, but anyone can easily connect it to their own culture.

[Comte Arnau]

ALL women are called Mary.

Ah, those fathers, always wanting their daughters to be virgins forever.

Mary, though, is likely not Hebrew in origin.