In the Hebrew new testament
Latin letters - Yeshu'a
Hebrew letters - ישוע (read from right to left)
Modern Hebrew
Latin letters - Yeshu
Hebrew letters - ישו (read from right to left)
2006-09-01 17:01:11
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answer #1
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answered by DeeZee 5
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Not really a philosophy question. More of a onomatology
(the study of the origins of names) question
It most certainly wasn't Jesus Christ. Joshua is closer.
Authors have put forward numerous explanations to explain the origin of the name 'Jesus', and have offered a still larger number of explanations for the meaning of the name. It is related to the Hebrew ×××ש××¢ Joshua, which is a theophoric name first mentioned within the Biblical tradition in Exodus 17:8 as one of Moses' companions (and, according to tradition, later successor). Breaking the name down, we see that there are two parts: ××× Yeho, the theophoric reference to Yhwh, which is the personal name of God, plus the three letter root ש××¢, relating to the noun shua. Due to disputes over how to render ש××¢ lexically,[1][2][3][4][5] there are a number of generally accepted phrases this combination can translate to:
Yeho-shua
Literal meaning:
"Yhwh" (is) a cry-for-help
"Yhwh" (is) a cry-for-saving
"Yhwh" (is) a saving-cry
That is, when in need of help shout, "God!"
Figurative meaning:
Yhwh is salvation
Yhwh saves
Yhwh is my help
That is, God always answers a cry for help.
Like many Hebrew names, the meaning of the name Yehoshua derives from the great desire of a parent (usually a mother) to have a child. Stories abound in the Hebrew Bible about ancient women who go to extraordinary lengths to conceive a child. The parent who has difficulty conceiving a child, shouts to God for help. The newborn child, then, is literally the answer to the parent's prayer. In honor of God's help, the parent names the child thus.
During the Exile to Babylon where the vernacular language of the Jewish people shifted from Hebrew to Aramaic (which was probably Jesus' mother tongue), ×××ש××¢ [yehoshua`] underwent a morphological change into the form ×ש××¢ [yeshua`]. Theophoric references, where in Hebrew would usually come in the form of ×× [yah] or ××× [yahu], in some dialects of Aramaic were ×× [ya'] or × [ye]. This shortening also allowed for some confusion, as the 3rd person imperfect form of ש×× [shua`] (to save) is ×ש××¢, allowing the Aramaic name to take on the meaning "He will save." (This perhaps makes sense of the angel's discussion with Joseph, in the narrative of Matthew, to name Mary's son "Jesus" because "He will save his people from their sins.")[6]
When the New Testament was complied, ×ש××¢ [yeshua`] was transliterated into Koine Greek as closely as possible, the result being ἸηÏÎ¿á¿¦Ï [IÄsous]. Where Greek has no equivalent of the semitic, ש [sheen], it was replaced with a Ï [sigma], and a masculine singular ending was added. With the range of dialect that existed in 1st Century Judea (especially around Galilee) scholars believe that the final ×¢ [`ayin] was simply dropped altogether. The earliest usage of this transliteration is actually found in the Septuagint and in writings of Philo of Alexandria[7].
From Greek, ἸηÏÎ¿á¿¦Ï [IÄsous] moved into Latin with the authorship of the Latin Vulgate and the earlier Vetus Latina. The morphological jump this time was not as large as previous changes between language families. ἸηÏÎ¿á¿¦Ï [IÄsous] was transliterated to Latin IESVS, where it stood for many centuries. Minuscule (lower case) letters were developed around 800 and some time later the U was invented to distinquish the vowel sound from the consonantal sound. Similarly, Greek minuscules were invented about the same time, prior to that the name was written in Capital letters like so: ÎÎCÎÎ¥C.
Near the end of Middle English, the vowels changed during the Great Vowel Shift in the 15th century, and the letter J was first distinguished from 'I' by the Frenchman Pierre Ramus in the 16th, but did not become common in Modern English until the 17th century. As such we can see that such works as the first edition of the King James Version of the Bible in 1611 continued to print the name with an I. [8]
Finally, after thousands of years and several languages later, the name finally came to rest as the Modern English "Jesus" [ËdÊi.zÉs].
2006-09-01 20:26:47
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answer #2
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answered by David Y 4
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Yeshu.
(full name: "Yehoshu'a", or "Yeshu'a", means: "god is salvation")
It is written ×ש×.
2006-09-02 16:31:29
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answer #7
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answered by yotg 6
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whoa, cant beat that last post
2006-09-01 20:29:40
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answered by Anonymous
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