every time i see Yeshua bin Miriam referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth" i'm reminded there's nothing so foundational that Christians won't get it completely wrong but i guess their holding the Sabbath on the wrong day was kind of a tell for that
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Replying to @chaosprime
An Anglicization of a Romanization of Hebrew in the context of a couple millennia of linguistic & syntactical drift tends to do that. Atlantis is always sinking below the waves, yet remains perfectly still
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it's not really syntactical drift, it's just fucking up: reading "ha-nazari", i.e. "the Nazirite", the name of an ascetic spiritual tradition, as "the Nazarene", what you call somebody from a place whose name has the same stem letters as the ascetic spiritual tradition
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