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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re:Re: What's in a Name (Mary)
Message-ID: <388@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 15:09:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 15:09:34 1984
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> >While I would find "Christine" an unusual name for a Jewish woman,
> >I wonder why Mary is considered so odd.
> 
> "Mary" and "Maria" are extremely rare Jewish names for essentially
> the same reason that "Christine" is not a Jewish name.  "Mary"
> and "Maria" are very strongly identified with the mother of jesus.
> 
>   - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
>   {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison

Um, well, but she was Jewish. (Come to think of it, so is He.)

Is "Miriam" more usually a Jewish name? (The only Miriam I
know is Christian.)

Regards,
Chris

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