Who knows Aramaic?

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Dear colleagues,

In A. A. Azarov's _Russko-angliiskii slovar' religioznoi leksiki_ 
(Moscow: 2002, p. 269) the Russian name "Iisus" (LC transliteration) is 
rendered as "Jesus" in English, possibly also "Joshua."  As for Hebrew, 
the name is given in Russian transliteration as "Ieshua" or "Ioshua."  
But if Jesus spoke Aramaic, what would it have been in Aramaic (or would 
the Aramaic pronunciation have been the same as Hebrew)?  I raise the 
question because, in Harold Bloom's recent book _Jesus and Yahweh: The 
Names Divine_ (2005) the author keeps referring to "Yeshua of Nazareth" 
(despite the title of his book), as if the gospels were not originally 
written in Greek (where of course it is "Iēsous").  Can anyone help out 
here?

Thanks, and regards to the list -

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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