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Why Does Daniel Go By His Hebrew Name, But His Friends Go By Their Chaldean Names?
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We think of Jesus’s disciples as fishermen, because many of them were—but not all. Where did all of them come from?
Fishing for Men: Naming Jesus’s Disciples
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