Re: virus: OT Titles

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:55:00 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Lior Golgher wrote:

> ALL - Do you have any idea why the books of the Christian Old Testamony
> have titles like 'Genesis'? What's the origin or cause of those specific
> titles?
>
> Lior.

The nonEnglish, nonname titles are usually Latin-based. Some of these
[Genesis, for instance] are Latin translations of the first few Hebrew
words; others seem to refer to church tradition [Ecclesiastes, for
instance].

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