I have recently finished republishing a series of posts from years ago that explored the tradition that Peter and Cephas were in fact two different people.\u00a0 Anyone who is not interested in the Bible would not care, of course, but then again, no one like that would be on the blog!\u00a0 For those who are both interested and familiar with the New Testament, the idea is unusual and odd \u2013 a bit of a bombshell, actually, since it is normally assumed that these are two names for the same disciple of Jesus, Simon son of Jonah, nicknamed \u201cCephas\u201d (an Aramaic term that means \u201crock\u201d) by Jesus.\u00a0 When the term \u201cRock\u201d was translated into Greek by later story tellers, they simply used the Greek term \u201cPetros,\u201d which gets transliterated into English as \u201cPeter.\u201d<\/p>\n
No problem, right?<\/p>\n
Well for 99.99% of the readers of the NT over the centuries, right.\u00a0 No problem. \u00a0But <\/p>\n
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