One 'Pilgrimer'....
The word "Easter" was coined by William Tyndale, the man who first translated the Bible into English. He was persecuted and driven out of England by the church when his request for permission to translate the Scriptures from the original Hebrew and Greek into English were refused. He then traveled secretly to Hamburg and joined up with Martin Luther who had already translated the Bible into German. Tyndale undertook his translation and relied heavily on Luther's work coining new English words drawn from many of Luther's German words and phrases, such as Easter (the English translation of the German word Oster used by Germanic people even to this day – the word Oster in turn derives from an old Teutonic root word "Aufstehen" the word for resurrection and literally means to "stand up") and many other English words were similarly coined by Tyndale relying on the German such as "passover" (from the Hebrew pesach and Greek pascha), and even the name “Jehovah” was coined by Tyndale as well as the words atonement, scapegoat, mercy seat and many others.
And it should be noted that the word “Easter” has only existed since Tyndale’s English Bible in the 16th century but if the word Easter was an adoption of the name of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, the word would certainly have been used in Christians writings that predate Tyndales 17th century introduction of the English word Easter.
The word "Easter" was coined by William Tyndale, the man who first translated the Bible into English. He was persecuted and driven out of England by the church when his request for permission to translate the Scriptures from the original Hebrew and Greek into English were refused. He then traveled secretly to Hamburg and joined up with Martin Luther who had already translated the Bible into German. Tyndale undertook his translation and relied heavily on Luther's work coining new English words drawn from many of Luther's German words and phrases, such as Easter (the English translation of the German word Oster used by Germanic people even to this day – the word Oster in turn derives from an old Teutonic root word "Aufstehen" the word for resurrection and literally means to "stand up") and many other English words were similarly coined by Tyndale relying on the German such as "passover" (from the Hebrew pesach and Greek pascha), and even the name “Jehovah” was coined by Tyndale as well as the words atonement, scapegoat, mercy seat and many others.
And it should be noted that the word “Easter” has only existed since Tyndale’s English Bible in the 16th century but if the word Easter was an adoption of the name of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, the word would certainly have been used in Christians writings that predate Tyndales 17th century introduction of the English word Easter.
