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Sommario
- Diana is in the Bible as the goddess of Ephesus in Acts 19, where the King James, Reina-Valera, Almeida, Louis Segond and Nuova Riveduta use her Roman name; the Greek says Artemis.
- No woman in Scripture is named Diana.
- The name probably means “divine,” from Latin dia o il diva, “goddess.”
- In Acts 19 the silversmith Demetrius starts a riot over lost income, the crowd chants “Great is Diana of the Ephesians,” and the city clerk dismisses it (Acts 19:23-41).
- Blessed Diana degli Andalò (1201–1236), a Dominican nun of Bologna, is the name’s best-known Christian bearer.
Bibliografia (Clicca per mostrare)
Sources: Behind the Name entry for Diana; Wikipedia, “Diana degli Andalò”; Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Acts 19:23-41), compared with the KJV, Reina-Valera 1960, Almeida Revista e Corrigida, Louis Segond 1910 and Nuova Riveduta 2006 at Acts 19:28.
