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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is weird culturally because of the Catholic focus with the Virgin Mary, but it is biblically Jewish. [b]No one questions Mark or Paul[/b] with Jewish boys, and there are a ton of Jewish men with those names...very New Testament. It really is just cultural.
Now, Christine, Christina, Chrissy...that is a Christian name.[/quote]

Not entirely true. Jews are "Saul," which was Paul's Jewish name. Jewish "Paul"s again, are largely named after older relatives who picked an assimilated Christian version of the traditional Jewish name.

"Mark," like "Julius," are/were popular Jewish names because they are Roman names.

-- mom to a "Julius Saul," named after an Orthdox great uncle (deceased) and a great-grandmother and great-grandfather, Paul and Pauline.

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You are taking it away too far. St. Paul, St. Mark- My point is that these are Christan religious names and I can list 20 Jewish Marks and Pauls..while yo can list original sources, so can Mary...but it was culturally taken by Catholic culture.[/quote]

I am telling you what Jews actually think and say to each other. I am not speculating on history. I am a Jewish woman who has had four babies myself, and heard countless conversations among other Jews, especially those of my mother's generation, about these "Christian"-y name choices. Is Christian-splaining a thing? You don't have to like it, or think it's reasonable, but this is what Jews will say about little Mary. They will say, "That's an odd choice. I don't know why she would name her daughter Mary. It's so Christian." Not all Jews, but enough that if you participate in Jewish life at all, you might want to think twice before setting yourself up for a lifetime of hurt feelings, or feeling misunderstood.[/quote]

I am not Christain-splaining to you as I am Jewish. What part of my post did you not understand? Yes, Jews will say '"that's an odd choice" -but my point is that it is only cultural as Paul, Matthew, Mark are often given to Jewish boys at no one says "That's an odd choice. " Mary is not actually a Christian name, but Christy or variations of that is.[/quote]

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