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Something I heard recently was that the Book of James in the New Testament was not originally called James. It was called Jacob, which was the Hebrew name of Jesus' brother who wrote it. But King James wanted his name in the Bible so the book of Jacob was renamed James!

And if you look at the Greek title of the book, you can see it looks more like Jacob than James 😄:

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Joel Walbert 2y ago

Oh wow. This I never heard of before, but that's definitely a translation of Jacob. One need not understand ancient greek to see that.

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Marakesh ð“…¦ 2y ago

The story sounds plausible to me. How else do you get "James" from "Jacob"?

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Joel Walbert 2y ago

Yea for real. Jesus/Yeshua makes sense. Mary/Maryam makes sense. Many other examples. But James/Jacob? Nah. Thats gotta be royal ego

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