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in reply to a message by Ken
Interesting suggestion about Judas - I'd always assumed that he was a sicarius, which is a dark and a dirty thing to have been - they performed random assassinations on random people in crowded streets, and disappeared quickly. (Josephus has the details.) Odd place, the Middle East.
Have you got a reference for your Cretan suggestion? I'd be really interested.
Have you got a reference for your Cretan suggestion? I'd be really interested.
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I really don't think Isabel means "daughter of Ba'al" Isabel is the 'Old Spanish' word for Elisabeth, meaning 'Devoted to God/Consecrated to God' I have never heard Isabel meaning anything else but that, until I saw it on this site. I strongly disagree. :)
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