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From: Tom Whittaker <tbw00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com>
Subject: Re: Hebrew names of 12 Apostles 
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In Article<45mvfa$pfl@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, <asolovay@kmassucc3-sun.us.oracle.com> write:
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> From: asolovay@kmassucc3-sun.us.oracle.com (Andrew Solovay)
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,sci.lang
> Subject: Re: Hebrew names of 12 Apostles
> Date: 14 Oct 1995 00:15:38 GMT
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> In article <45msp8$526@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
>     
> Solomon Taibi  <taibi@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >In <45m0re$ojo@alterdial.UU.NET> "Andrew E. Mathis"
> ><amathis@mail.newhouse.com> writes: 
> >
> >>Finally is the question of James the Less. My Catholic brethren will 
> >>tell me that he is not the son of Joseph and Mary so he is not, in 
> >>Hebrew, Ya'akov ben Yosef....
> >
> >"James" in Hebrew is "Ya'akov" ?  I had though it was "Chaim".
> >Am I totally wrong, or is there something behind this?
> 
> I think this is common-- that "James" is understood as an English
> variant of "Jacob". For example, King James was referred to as (I
> believe) "Jacobus Rex" in various Latin inscriptions... or so I
> vaguely recall.
> 
> In fact, in the Koine NT and the Vulgate, what is "James" called? Any
> scholar-types here who can check this? I'm pretty sure it isn't
> "James"...

   In the Greek it is Jacobus, a derivitive of Jacob. 

Tom


> 
> --Andrew Solovay <solovay@netcom.com>
> 
> "`Royale with cheese.'"
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