IOKOBOS to JAMES
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Aug 6 23:42:25 EDT 2002
At 10:24 PM -0400 8/6/02, Eric S. Weiss wrote:
>IACWBOS = JAMES is a weird convolution/evolution, but what personally gets
>me is the refusal (in English at least) to name the short book before the
>Apocalypse JUDAS. The author's name is IOUDAS, not IOUDH/E. I know that
>more than one set of eyebrows will be raised in my "Greek for non-Greeks"
>class when they see for themselves that Jude is actually Judas.
Well, it does indeed appear that this is one of the longest threads ever
over a rather marginal issue and I certainly didn't think I'd be having any
input into it, but now I can't resist. "Yehudah" once Hellenized to IOUDAS
and later Anglicized to "Judah" has indeed suffered its own fate of
linguistic transformation. My guess is that the form "Jude" is the
Gallicized IOUDAS and that the Biblical book took its name from the
Gallicized form--but there's no reason in the world why it couldn't have
been "Judah"--certainly that name is common enough among English-speakers
as a proper name.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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