it's not Christ! someone who knows about Hebrew please help me. :)
2007-10-26 12:30:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus son of Mary
2007-10-26 12:36:50 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Last names" were not common in Hebrew culture at the time when Jesus lived. Instead, they would identify which "Jesus" they were talking about by mentioning a distinctive fact about him, such as his home town (Jesus of Nazareth) or by his father's name (Jesus the "son of Joseph" - "ben Yusuf" in the Hebrew) or his occupation (Jesus the Carpenter or Jesus the Christ). All of those are found in scripture. But a "last name" is not.
2007-10-26 19:49:56 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you assume that he had one, It is my understanding that 'Last Names' as we understand them are a fairly modern occurance, and practice.
And your are right it is not 'Christ', that is the word for annointed or Chosen one, his first name wasn't exactly Jesus either thou, it was more likely pronouced closer to the modern Joshua.
Most Surnames evolved out of Occupations, regions of origin, physical traits, or parents names. He could have been identified as Joshua Carpenter, Joshua Nazarean(sp?), Joshua Long (Minds out of the gutter, most depictions show him being rather lanky), Joshua Josephson. perhaps he answered to each one at different times depending on where he was and who was calling him that.
thats the trouble w/ languages and dialects, the pronunciations change w/ time, then you add translations, and then the translations change, and if you try to go back you get totally different words than you started with, look up a 'babelfish' program. type in a common phrase like "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." start with english, and move through 2-3 others, then work back. even money says you don't get what you started with.
2007-10-26 19:51:40 · answer #3 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have been Ben-Yusuf (son of Joseph,) Yusuf being the Aramaic spelling of Joseph in this case. Jesus didn't speak Hebrew every day, rather Aramaic.
His full name would have been Emmanuel ben Yusuf.
2007-10-26 19:38:27 · answer #4 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surnames were not adopted until the Middle Ages. Before that you added either the father's name (Jesus bin Joseph), home town (Jesus of Nazareth), profession (John the Baptist), or possibly a physical characteristic (Barbosa = with a beard).
2007-10-26 19:40:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No last name.
2007-10-26 19:35:50 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, unfit_commander, Christ is a title and not a surname.
2007-10-26 19:40:07 · answer #7 · answered by petrof_skinsky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Singh
2007-10-26 19:37:27 · answer #8 · answered by bROWNbEAUTY UDontLikeIt?TooBad! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a super awesome answer here
by dewcoons I agree with him 100%
So I won't repeat his answer but I will add that
Yeshua means Salvation.
He was also known by Emmanuel.
Emmanuel means "God with us"
2007-10-26 19:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by Wicked Aliens 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HChristerson
2007-10-26 19:33:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋