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finelythreadedsky · 9 months ago

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on the heels of my realization that nathaniel and theodore are the same name, anybody got any guesses about what 'aristobulus' might calque from hebrew into greek? 'best-plan'?

#not applicable to the hasmonean aristobulus i whose name we know was judah #but aristobulus seems to have been a common name in hellenistic judea and not just among the royal family #i know philo of alexandria was jedediah so i suspect there's similar calquing going on with some other names #although plenty of other names seem to have been 'translated' based on sounding similar #joshua=jason and simcha(s)=symmachus. that kind of thing #although idk how honi=menelaus but that seems to have been a thing too #mine

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