Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck...
that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.
And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old (carbon-dated) contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner... No, it's the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.
I like to think that a small learjet carrying 12 passengers passes through a time portal, and when the captain steps out onto that Tigris plain, he winces at the sun and says “Jesus Christ!” and the people bowed
See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.
No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.
fonix232@fedia.io 6 hours ago
Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck...
that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.
And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old (carbon-dated) contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner... No, it's the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
I like to think that a small learjet carrying 12 passengers passes through a time portal, and when the captain steps out onto that Tigris plain, he winces at the sun and says “Jesus Christ!” and the people bowed
fonix232@fedia.io 1 hour ago
See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.
No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.