Designating people by belief is not typically a Jewish custom. Jews are more likely to be designated as traditional or liberal.
The Jewish religious leadership were so concerned because the new believers were not living up to their rules and standards that were traditions. The new believers believed things that the Jewish leaders did not believe.
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Believers of God.
It may be a Jewish name, if it is used by a Jewish family. If used by a non-Jewish family, then it is not a Jewish name. Virtually all names used by Jewish families are also non-Jewish names.
unlikely. Slavic names ending in "i" are rarely Jewish names.
A Jewish person may have almost any name possible, but there are no names that are traditionally both Scottish and Jewish.
only about 10% of Jews are orthodox.
Because in the English Bible the disciples names are a translation of their Jewish name or possibly a transliteration of their Jewish names. For example Simon is English for the Jewish name Shimon and John is the English equivalent of Jochanan
Most Filipinos are Christian, and use biblical names. If the names came from the Hebrew Bible, they would very likely be Jewish names.
Boris Feldblyum has written: 'Russian-Jewish given names' -- subject(s): Jewish, Names, Personal, Personal Names
It could be both - Jewish names and German names are often similar and it could be that your ancestors were both Jewish and German (Jews living in Germany).
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