I just listened to a beautiful concert of German baroque music having to do with Easter. I've studied German, and two eighteenth-century words caught my eye.

1. verdolmetschet - this means 'translated', and that part's all right. But it's so funny-looking. Where did this word come from? And what does it have to do with the personal name Dolmetsch? as in Arnold Dolmetsch?

2. Why does Jesus address his disciple John as Johannes? Why do we see this name as Johann sometimes and Johannes other times?

It was a beautiful concert, with a recorder too.