Quote Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
Still, any idea why the Old and New Testament persons with the same Hebrew names are rendered differently?
Because the Old Testament is written in Hebrew and the New Testament is written in koine Greek.

The demotic speach of Jesus and his disciples was not Hebrew but Aramaic.

(PS When I did a course on Religious Studies some twenty years ago, we were told that Old Testament was the specifically Christian term, like Before Christ. The neutral terms would be the Hebrew Scriptures and Before Christian Era.)