May 31, 2006
Is Brad & Angelina’s Baby The New Messiah?
Brad and Angelina, as everyone now knows, named their daughter ‘Shiloh Nouvel,’ and in a story today CNN.com is suggesting that “if one were to take a literal approach to analyzing the entire name, Jolie and Pitt could appear exceedingly bold in dubbing their daughter ‘the New Messiah’.”
Hmm…you think so? I don’t agree. If you check out the post I wrote a couple of days ago, I noted that the meaning of ‘Shiloh’ is all over the biblical map, with at least a half dozen variations floating around. Maybe Brad and Angelina were thinking of the meaning ‘Gods’ Gift,’ with the spiritual connotation being ‘personal sacrifice,’ as described in Dorothy Astoria’s The Name Book, a 1982 book that provides biblical and spiritual references for names. Or maybe they chose Shiloh for one of its other meanings.
In fact, I think it’s CNN, running this half-baked AP wire story, that is being “exceedingly bold” here. For the sake of stoking up a bit of controversy and pandering to their website readers, they stretch as far as they can to suggestively attribute a meaning to ‘Nouvel Shiloh’ that Brad and Angelina most likely did not intend. But hey, it sells, right?
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Perhaps Dr Spooner’s interpretation of Shiloh Pitt would be different!