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in reply to a message by RoxStar
That's true. Abraham is a part of gentile Americans' culture. Even though at some point it came to be considered a predominately Jewish name, further back in history the Puritans began using Old Testament names, Abraham among them. We had a famous non-Jewish President named Abraham, after all. Ibrahim and Avram are not a part of our culture.
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It's interesting (maybe nauseating) to think about how our descendants will consider our name trends and the cultural motivations for them. We might say the Puritans used names for philosophical, religious, and political reasons they were at least semi-conscious of.... Or were they?
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