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> But I think Issachar may have chosen his name because it is also the name of one of the Twelve Tribes of Isreal (the tribes are named after the 12 children of Jacob). I do not know if Iss knew of the 'strong a.s.s' passage or not, but the Twelve Tribes of Israel are a very important bit of Jewish faith, and by extention Christian faith, though not as important.



>The tribe of Issachar is on of the Lost Tribes, so perhappes Issachar was attracted to the name for that reason.
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> Also it is one of the cooler sounding names. Some of the other Tribes' names are regular common names today, like Benjamin, and just wouldn't be as cool.
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> Whatever reason Issachar chose his name, I like it.
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> Speed'didthatmakesense?'ball

You're on the right track. This question has come up in the Forum once or twice before, but without the benefit of the Forum's Search Engine (*cough, cough*) it took me awhile to hunt down one of my previous posts which explains things. A link to that post is below.

Iss "too lazy to type it out again" achar