Re: Herod the Elder
Wow. Just… Wow. That’s absolutely amazing. In fact, it makes me think of the stories of Moses as an actual Egyptian, considering the name ‘Mose’ is an Egyptian word for ‘son’, such as Tuthmose or Kamose (son of the Spirit, i.e. son of God). Historian David Ullian came to the conclusion that ‘Moses’ was simply a title (a bit like ‘Christ’) which people ended up turning into a name. Once he emancipated the Israelites from Egypt they took him as their leader, used his title, and in time lost his original name.
Peace m249boost
This is a nice thread and I think your post will need to be ratified by the expert (hyponotix-2000) but I think your theory is quite plausible. In Islam we believe that Musa (AS) was raised by Egyptians in the household of the Pharaoh, so they could have named him or given him a title which was noticeably Egyptian.
The bigger picture here reveals that Allah (SWT) cannot be bound by any one language.
Hyponotix-2000 has a compatible theory with regards to the Judiac mission. According to Islam we believe that Jews were the chosen people, chosen to be the examples to benchmark humanity against, so it therefore means that conversions could be possible, rather plausible. It so turned out that they began to re-engineer the meaning of the words 'chosen people' and turned it into a race thing that their race is the only one that is pure and therefore exempt from requirement and here to rule over other races. This misnoma led to the coming of Jesus (AS) to mould the Jews back towards the correct understanding.
Again the followers of Christ (AS) began their mission to propagate, but some did so with a twist and took the message of Christ (AS) and encouraged people to leave the law entirely passing it off as 'out-of-date'.
Of course the Christians would have a different conclusion. I had heard that the word firdaus is linked liguistically with the term we know today as Paradise. So I can confirm that too.
Keep up the conversation perhaps more can be uncovered here.