To Draw Closer

Volume/headphone warning.

Wanted to try and pay homage to perhaps the best tweet in existence. Any and all credit goes to Patricia Lockwood for the original post and picture. And, of course, to darling, affronted Miette.

Soo another update I didn’t change much but I see a lot ppl ask for my dream address I decorated a little more so yayyy ♡︎♡︎

The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. The Hebrew, Aramaic and “Greek” named Apostles were: Shim’on = Simon (Hebrew origin). Y’hochanan = John (Hebrew origin). Mattithyahu = Matthew (Hebrew origin). Ya’aqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob). Bar-Tôlmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew). Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin). Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah). Cephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning “Rock”). Tau’ma = Thomas (Aramaic origin). Andrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Is the brother of Cephas / Kephas). Phillip = Phillip (Greek origin). You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Ya’aqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles.

Modern Turkey was heavily Greek in culture until it was conquered by the Turks.

Mary = Miriam (Hebrew)

Joseph = Yosef (Hebrew)

Jacob = Yakov (Hebrew)

Rebecca = Rivka (Hebrew)

Abraham = Avraham (pronounced Ah-vrah-HAHM, Hebrew)

Moses = Moshe (Hebrew)

Isaac =Yitzchak (pronounced “yitz-HAHK,” with a guttural H, Hebrew)

This is what Jews mean when we say our holy book was stolen from us and that Christians didn’t “inherit” it. We were literally removed from it.

And before you say “oh, well, it’s just a translation! That happens all the time!”, I want you to think about two things: minor characters like Shedrach, Mesach, and Abednego retained their names. It’s only the major figures in Judaism who lost their names this way.

And also, tell me it’d be the same story if Fred, Sam, Gael, and Lawrence were traveling to Mordor to destroy the One Ring. Or would you feel like it might be a wee bit, oh, OUT OF CONTEXT AND APPROPRIATIVE??