Notes & Asides

Dear Bill:

Among the many misspellings of my name, none is more intriguing than the NR version (“Josiaph” in Allan Crawford’s piece on the Ripon Society). Whereas Josiah means “God will save [him],” “Josiaph” transliterated back into the Hebrew would mean “anger will save.” Is this a bilingual pun? If not, is the error typographical or heretical?