Re: [AUXLANG] We do but jest, poison in jest,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:29:25 -0400 bjm10@CORNELL.EDU writes:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> > and Marduk, Babylonian deities!  Imagine the amount of
> assimilation that
> > could lead to that - ¿ever heard of a Jew named Jesús? :-)  (i've
> Don't you mean "Joshua"?
>
> Of course, in the modern day, that would be shortened to
> "Josh"--waitaminnit!
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The original Hebrew/Aramaic form of Jesus, _Yeishua`_, was probably a
shortened form of Joshua.  Joshua, or _Yehoshua`_, is still a very
popular and common Jewish name.  But i have only heard of one person
today named _Yeishua`_.  It was probably a pretty common name back then,
but there's a difference between the name Yeishua` and the name
Jesus/Jesús.  If you tell a Hebrew-speaker the name "Jesus", they're not
going to think "oh, that's a foreign form of Yehoshua`", they're going to
think Jesus of Nazareth.  It's a very distinctive name - you don't hear
of many people named Zeus, Horus, or Thor either.

Btw, the more common Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth today is _Yeishu_,
with the final [a3] dropped.


-Stephen (Tzvi-hersh)
 "do not fear sudden terror..."