In a message dated 3/26/99 4:30:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, Shadow6865
writes:
 
 << In a message dated 3/26/99 10:59:05 AM, UnderF4331@aol.com writes:
  
  << 
   And as to why they're called Evangelion, no-one knows; it's not mentioned
in
   any of the canon. Gendo probably just pulled a religious term out of his
ass
   the day it came to name them.
   
  >>
  
  			Evangelion is Greek for "Good News." The word Evangeliest (Bringer of
Good News) is dirved from Evangelion. So the title Neon Genesis Evangelion
literally means "New Begining Good News" kind of puts a positive, campy spin
on the end of humanity, doesn't it? >>
 	1.  I was quoting the guy who said that.
 	2.  I've been taking Hellenistic Greek.  Namely, the version of it used in
the writing of the Bible.
 	Good News is the literal translation of the word, but when one is used to
translating after a while one finds that it makes more sense to sometimes
simply translate angelos as angel instead of the lit. messenger and evangelos
as gospel instead of good news (and in this case they both mean pretty much
the same thing but one's Greek and I don't know gospel's entomology so maybe
it's Latin?).  Given the context of evangelion in this case, the proper
translation is probably gospel...
 
 
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