Who knows Aramaic?

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere asks about the Aramaic version of the name 
"Jesus." The Wikipedia entry for "Yeshua," which seems authoritative 
(and which cites sources that one could consult), suggests only that 
"Yeshua," a Hebrew and Aramaic shortening of the earlier Hebrew 
"Yehoshua," _could_ be the original version that was transliterated into 
Greek in the Gospels and adds that "the claim that the form _Yeshua_ is 
the original name for Jesus is debatable." The traditional vocalization 
of this late Biblical Hebrew form, according to the article, was with a 
narrow [e] in the first syllable and with a voiced pharyngeal fricative 
(not available in either Greek or English) at the end.

Bob Rothstein (no, I don't know Aramaic)

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