Le 2012-01-10 22:36, Patrick Elliott a écrit :
> On 1/10/2012 7:02 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>>> I also gather that "Jesus" was a fairly common name too. Like, if I sat
>>> down today and wrote a book about "John Smith", in 2,000 years' time
>>> historians are going to have one *hell* of a time figuring out whether I
>>> based it on a real person or not...
>>>
>>
>> I read somewhere (assign a random value of factuality to that statement)
>> that Jesus (or Yeshua) may have been a title or nickname, rather than
>> his real name.
>>
>>
> Doubt it. While Jewish names generally had meanings, they where not used
> as titles. Given the time period it would be like, as Invisible said,
> titling someone "John", and expecting anyone to not go, "Oh, I know him,
> doesn't he make sandles two streets down that way?" His *title* was
> Christ, or Messiah. Or at least, that is what they tacked on to what
> ever imaginary person, or poor corpse, had the luck of "founding" the
> things. lol

He was a carpenter, not a shoemaker... ;)

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