12-17-2024, 06:48 AM
This post was last modified 12-17-2024, 06:53 AM by Solvedit. Edited 1 time in total.
Mary Magdalene (or her bosses) may have simply spoken a language which still had many words similar to Proto-Indo-European but has evolved away from it since then. She (or her bosses) need not have actually spoken Lithuanian. It is ancient and a close living relative of Proto-Indo-European speech, so it might have shared words in common with the languages of the Ancient Near East.
Mary Magdalene need not have been Hebrew. There could have been human trafficking. Or, recall that the OT contains instructions the Israelites were to follow in absorbing the members of conquered tribes. Some of those tribes could have spoken languages which, unlike Hebrew, were members of the Proto-Indo-European language group. It could be an extinct language if the tribe was conquered and is no more.
The Lord attests to the effectiveness of Judaism in several places in the Gospel so the faithful Jews probably by-and-large weren't the ones in the communities in which the Lord's earthly ministry takes place. There were probably fallen-away Jews and people from abroad.
To reiterate, her name sounds like a contraction of "distributes magic" or magija dalina (that's magiYA. there is no soft g sound.)
There is no more basis for the present theory that she is named for the city of Magdala than for this theory because it is based on the sound of the city's name. Suppose Magdala too was named for the vaguely Lithuanian-like words for "distributes magic" rather than Hebrew for "fishing village with a tower."
Mary Magdalene need not have been Hebrew. There could have been human trafficking. Or, recall that the OT contains instructions the Israelites were to follow in absorbing the members of conquered tribes. Some of those tribes could have spoken languages which, unlike Hebrew, were members of the Proto-Indo-European language group. It could be an extinct language if the tribe was conquered and is no more.
The Lord attests to the effectiveness of Judaism in several places in the Gospel so the faithful Jews probably by-and-large weren't the ones in the communities in which the Lord's earthly ministry takes place. There were probably fallen-away Jews and people from abroad.
To reiterate, her name sounds like a contraction of "distributes magic" or magija dalina (that's magiYA. there is no soft g sound.)
There is no more basis for the present theory that she is named for the city of Magdala than for this theory because it is based on the sound of the city's name. Suppose Magdala too was named for the vaguely Lithuanian-like words for "distributes magic" rather than Hebrew for "fishing village with a tower."
