In the west, the last name is the surname, which is the name that identifies what family you belong to, or who your common ancestors are. In the ancient near east, they had a similar practice. People ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration, the Daily Mail ...

“Most scholars also accept that his name was Yeshua or perhaps Yeshu, which was a very common name in first-century Galilee.” In the very observation, the conventional contemporary image of a solitary ...