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This is awesome. Thank you!!!!!! One thing that is so cool is how important names were back then as illustrated by the Bible. The name meanings of the Old Testament authors illustrated what their book would often be about. For example, Isaiah means "Yahweh is Salvation" and his book dealt with salvation. Ezekiel means "God strengthens", and Ezekial was constantly crying out God's message to the Jews and was constantly getting persecuted for it. Zechariah means "God has remembered" and his book dealt with rebuilding the center of Jewish worship, Jewish Temple after it was destroyed. There are also several very funny names. One name that Isaiah was told to name his new born son was "Maher-shalal-hash-baz". I would hate to be that kid. Maybe, I should but that name up with the interactive polls and see what response I get with it.