This was a practice not just in the Bible but even much later and in many other countries. I guess the population was not very large so you were known by your name and the identity of your father....
The principle characters and peoples mentioned in the Torah were all black people.The Egyptians ( Misraim) called their land KMT which means land of the blacks or the Black lands But Egypt is in the...
A change in name usually meant a change in the path of life that person was taking. Simon, one of the disciples, name was changed to Peter which means "rock." Jesus famously said about Peter "upon...