(This is a by no means trivial vignette in my Religion section.)
For the record, both these New Testament names: Jude and Judas are indistinguishable in the Greek original (Ιούδας). They are also the same in the Russian Bible (Иуда).
The good old St. Jude and the bad Judas Iscariot… The English-speaking world wishes to disassociate these two persons so much that the same name in Greek is translated differently into English. The Russians do not suffer from the same type of hypocrisy. They correctly call St. Jude “St. Judas,” and they see nothing wrong in that. After all, “What’s in a name?!” Incidentally, this question was not asked by a Russian, but by a bona fide Englishman.
For the record, both these New Testament names: Jude and Judas are indistinguishable in the Greek original (Ιούδας). They are also the same in the Russian Bible (Иуда).
The good old St. Jude and the bad Judas Iscariot… The English-speaking world wishes to disassociate these two persons so much that the same name in Greek is translated differently into English. The Russians do not suffer from the same type of hypocrisy. They correctly call St. Jude “St. Judas,” and they see nothing wrong in that. After all, “What’s in a name?!” Incidentally, this question was not asked by a Russian, but by a bona fide Englishman.
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