[Avodah] Calling people up to the Torah

[shalomyitz at comcast.net]

>Whats the source for calling People for an Aliya to the T by their name ben 
>father's name 
>What is the earliest source and why do we do it? 
>I believe it is not a universal custom, in some places they just say YaAmod 
>and point 

I'm actually really confused by the question, and wonder if someone -- maybe off list? -- 
could clear it up: 

In the Torah, aren't people generally called by this formula (Yehoshua ben Nun, etc). Before we ended 
up taking last names, wasn't this the way most people were identified? So, isn't this just the way that 
people were identified? It would be the same if now we were to say "Stand up, Steve Scher". Isn't it? 

What am I missing? 

- Steve Scher 
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