[Avodah] hayom yom rishon....

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/15/2011 12:24 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:32:05AM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> Why not?  We have children named Dennis or Denise, both of which come
>> from Dionysus.  The Yiddish name Feivush/Feivel (and the English name
>> Phoebe) both come from Phoebus Apollo....
>
> BTW, add Isidore (Isis + adore) and Isibelle (Isis + belle=beauty) to the
> list. And since I'm reprising things we said in 2009, lets ad the biblical
> names Ehud (which Lisa told us was "Sumerian for House of Shamash (E.UD),
> where Shamash was their sun deity), and the name Anat (a Canaanite deity)
> in Shamgar ben Anat.

I'm skeptical about Isabelle.  I thought that was a derivative of 
Izevel/Jezebel.

> BTW, notice that the fifth thing lists in the mishnah (Taanis 4:6) of
> the calamities that occured on 17 beTammuz was the introduction of a
> tzelem into the heikhal. According to the gemara (28b) this was during
> bayis rishon. (Citing Daniyel 12:11 and 9:27.)
>
> To me it seems significant about AKhG telling us to call the month in
> which this happened a name that brings AZ into the calendar. (Even if
> I can't say /how/ it's significant.)

Interesting.

Lisa