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[Sean]

Fair enough. You're barking up the wrong tree though...

[dgs49]

I ain't no linguist, but I've read that Jesus, Joseph, and Joshue are simply different versions of the same name (like Joseph, Giuseppi, and Jose or Jesus) - in effect, Jesus was a "Junior," named after his step-father.

My pet peeve in art is "whitebread" depictions of biblical figures, like the one above. I have no idea what Mary looked like, but I'm pretty certain she didn't have pale skin and light brown hair. I understand it, but I don't like it.

[dales]

I don't like it, either.

Jesus certainly didn't look like the white northern European depicted so often.

[rubato]

If Jesus really was God's son why did Mary name him after her Mexican gardener?

But the gardener is pronounced "Hay-soos" while the other one is "Jee-zus".

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[loCAtek]

In Ancient Arabic, يسوع sounded more like Yesh-Uah ...

[Sue U]

In Ancient Arabic, يسوع sounded more like Yesh-Uah ...

Arabic hardly even existed as a language in the 1st Century and was mostly confined to Arabia. The commonly used languages of the Western Levant during the Second Temple period, and particularly at the time of Jesus, were Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek.

[loCAtek]

Ah, I was going by 'Passion of the Christ' and to confirm the pronunciation; went to google translate. I believe, Passion was filmed in Aramaic and the Arabic audio sounded very similar (they didn't have Aramaic as a choice). So, you could say both.

[dales]

From Wiki:

[edit] Hebrew origins

The spelling Yahshuah (יהשע) is not found in Hebrew texts. The Hebrew Bible uses Yehoshuah (יהושע), and later Yeshua, for Joshua, which means "Yah is Salvation." Christians, historians, and linguists outside the sacred name movement for the most part reject the term Yahshua in favor of Yeshua (ישוע) as the original pronunciation.[1]

I like "Emanuel" whch means "God with us".

[liberty]

Both names Jesus and Joshua basically mean savior.