On 1/11/2012 6:23 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> 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... ;)
>
> Wikipedia claims that "carpenter" is not a good translation. More like
> "odd job man".
Great a tinker. lol Oh my, you mean he was actually a gnome? Oh, wait, 
wrong fictional mythology...

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