Foolish, Scandalous or Good

2 Foolish, Scandalous or Good?

The man was a Jew, born and bred in what is now south-eastern Turkey. He was called Saul, a Hebrew name that, in his Jewish culture, had ancient royal associations. In Greek, however (Greek was the standard language around the Mediterranean world, like English is in many places today), the name Saul carried unpleasant overtones. It’s as though somebody from a non-English culture had a name like Wimp or Slob and decided that in the English-speaking world he would change it to something less likely to evoke snickers. Saul changed his name to Paul…