tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post4000092152630121278..comments2016-08-22T12:00:03.978+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-61041115148009111922009-08-23T09:39:31.379+01:002009-08-23T09:39:31.379+01:00Anon @ 4AM:<br />You mis understand.<br /><br />It&#39;s really irrelevant what the nature of David and Jonathan&#39;s relationship actually was. What matters is what people may have thought it was.<br /><br />My interest is in the etymology of the phrase &#39;Yan Dauda&#39;.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-59769496020413373892009-08-19T04:00:00.485+01:002009-08-19T04:00:00.485+01:00&quot;various commentators have mooted the notion that the deep brotherly bond between david and jonathan as recorded in the old testament, went beyond &#39;just friends&#39;.&quot;<br /><br /><br />Do you have any idea what God would have done to them if they went beyond &quot;just friends&quot; (Go read about Sodom and Gomorrah) for hints.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-64551890236268832272009-08-17T18:02:56.827+01:002009-08-17T18:02:56.827+01:00i wonder if the author explored the origin of the term &#39;yan daudu&#39;, which literally translates &#39;those of (or those like?) David&#39; - (the hausa version of David is Dauda).<br /><br />various commentators have mooted the notion that the deep brotherly bond between david and jonathan as recorded in the old testament, went beyond &#39;just friends&#39;.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-28457957609230052022009-08-17T17:49:50.286+01:002009-08-17T17:49:50.286+01:00hmmm, my parents who went to school and lived in the north for quite a bit have told me about this, but my friends from the north that are around my age have denied the existence of these men, I wonder if it might be dying outOmosi Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485590117605048610[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-12706129355167004102009-08-17T17:24:26.858+01:002009-08-17T17:24:26.858+01:00Pak Karamu reading your blog~PakKaramu~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09409943711766293201[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-53684439983107733052009-08-17T12:23:42.880+01:002009-08-17T12:23:42.880+01:00Fascinating book... on a day the BBC announce a wave of murders of homosexual men in Iran.<br /><br />Clicking through to the amazon link I was suprised to see the term &quot;Queer studies&quot; used, it seems, on the back cover.Abujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14576967958707385904[email protected]