Buster

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:20 PM -0500 2/22/03, James A. Landau wrote:
>And then it is well documented that Jesus of Nazareth coined the name "Peter".

Is it?  He came up with the pun, but it's consistent with the dubbing
ceremony that even if Peter was so-called because he was the rock
upon which Jesus founded his church, the name itself might have
predated its use for Simon.  In fact, if it *was* a pun (as I always
imagined), it works better if "Peter" (or Petros, or whatever the
Aramaic equivalent was) already existed as an ...um...Christian name.

Larry