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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9159575" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>We are talking 2000 years of history across a fairly wide variety of cultures and geographic regions. The more you read into Christian church history, particularly primary texts, the more you realize the tremendous variety of religious practices, traditions, and theologies existed within the Christian faiths across time. The lines frequently blur when you look at priests in different other faiths throughout history. The lines between a shaman and a Christian priest dealing with spirits in terms of an exorcism can likewise be a blur.</p><p></p><p>I would say that even if English speakers use "priest" for its Christian religious/spiritual leaders - whose etymology has already been discussed - the word has evolved to a fairly generalized term for religious leaders in other faith traditions. Neither the Romans nor Greeks referred to their pre-Christian priests as "priests" (or <em>presbyteroi</em> in Greek). Nor did the Judeans refer to their priests as "priests." They were referred to as sacerdos (Roman), hiereus (Greek), and cohen (Hebrew). Nevertheless, much as [USER=177]@Umbran[/USER] says, really no one insists on referring to them according to their native terms. The translation into English will in most cases be "priest." This is also often the case when we look at how other languages and cultures translate "priest" according to their own terms, much as one can find "cohen" frequently translated to "hiereus" in the Greek Septuagint or even New Testament.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Much like how a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9159575, member: 5142"] We are talking 2000 years of history across a fairly wide variety of cultures and geographic regions. The more you read into Christian church history, particularly primary texts, the more you realize the tremendous variety of religious practices, traditions, and theologies existed within the Christian faiths across time. The lines frequently blur when you look at priests in different other faiths throughout history. The lines between a shaman and a Christian priest dealing with spirits in terms of an exorcism can likewise be a blur. I would say that even if English speakers use "priest" for its Christian religious/spiritual leaders - whose etymology has already been discussed - the word has evolved to a fairly generalized term for religious leaders in other faith traditions. Neither the Romans nor Greeks referred to their pre-Christian priests as "priests" (or [I]presbyteroi[/I] in Greek). Nor did the Judeans refer to their priests as "priests." They were referred to as sacerdos (Roman), hiereus (Greek), and cohen (Hebrew). Nevertheless, much as [USER=177]@Umbran[/USER] says, really no one insists on referring to them according to their native terms. The translation into English will in most cases be "priest." This is also often the case when we look at how other languages and cultures translate "priest" according to their own terms, much as one can find "cohen" frequently translated to "hiereus" in the Greek Septuagint or even New Testament. Much like how a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. [/QUOTE]
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