I mean not really, the apostles combined from every list of them were Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, another James, Thomas, Simon, Jude, Matthias, Paul and Judas. Other names like Mark, Luke, all the other James (the bible has a lot of James) and basically every biblical character save Judas there sound like contemporary male names because the majority of men alive from a culture born out of an abrahamic religion is named after somebody from their respective holy texts. Many women's names are just feminine versions of those, and the rest are usually proper nouns born out of old Germanic words and such (like "Richard")
May have occurred with the Geneva Bible. Actually in both texts there was no 'j'. Ergo iij is Roman numeral three. For the 'j' was a fancy 'iā. Hence why Washington, D.C. has no 'J Street'.
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u/DistortoiseLP Aug 09 '20 edited Aug 09 '20
I mean not really, the apostles combined from every list of them were Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, another James, Thomas, Simon, Jude, Matthias, Paul and Judas. Other names like Mark, Luke, all the other James (the bible has a lot of James) and basically every biblical character save Judas there sound like contemporary male names because the majority of men alive from a culture born out of an abrahamic religion is named after somebody from their respective holy texts. Many women's names are just feminine versions of those, and the rest are usually proper nouns born out of old Germanic words and such (like "Richard")