/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Sep 25 20:47:21 UTC 2002


>David Bergdahl said:
>>Joshua would be the anglicized form for Jesus
>>>
>>>>Oops, I didn't finished my messge before I sent it. Should we then start
>>>>saying Yesus (that isn't even the Aramaic form, but I am not sure what
>>>>that would be) instead of Jesus?
>>>Firtz
>
>Not quite. Well, kind of. The Hebrew name was *probably* Yehoshua.
>Joshua is the anglicized equivalent of that name.

I've noticed the "Jews for Jesus" people call him something like
Y'shua in their ads.  I suppose they're trying to make him look more
authentically Jewish.  (And after all, how could a nice Jewish boy,
or girl, reject a savior and messiah if he's just a nice Jewish boy
named Y'shua?)

larry



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