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erratio

A Jew by any other name..

Oct 21, 2006 20:28

I have now had the second person ask me if the reason for my religion's name is because of the apostle Judas. Judging by the cultural, social and physical distance between the two queries leads me to think that this belief must be quite widespread ( Read more... )

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Hello... mnarciso October 21 2006, 14:08:35 UTC

Jesus is actually translated more closely to Yeshua, Yehoshua, or at times, Yahshua. But pretty close, eh. Hope you ok, jen. Take care. :-)

Re: Hello... erratio October 21 2006, 17:47:16 UTC

/me hangs my head in shame

I feel like I should have known that :(

And I am doing ok. More than ok in fact, for once I would say I am going well, walking into walls aside :) How's things going for you?

anonymous October 22 2006, 04:03:49 UTC

Congrats on regaining your vision ( ... )

erratio October 22 2006, 04:31:17 UTC

Just in time too I'm guessing :)

Will we see a return to blogging when you're finished?

anonymous October 22 2006, 09:12:00 UTC

Yes indeed! I miss it too, hence the lengthy comments on other people's blogs (hehe)

I plan on finishing up within the next couple of days (YAY) and, as it's due in next Tuesday, that gives me a good week to breathe deeply and read over it properly before finally ridding myself of the damn thing forever. Bwa-ha-ha.

anonymous October 22 2006, 09:48:55 UTC

Oh, and by the way:

There's a Jesus in Ezra 3:9 (a son of a certain Shealtiel) and the Greek Bible spells his name just as they spell the name of Jesus in the Gospels. The King James Version, however, transliterates it instead: Jeshua. Best not confuse the masses, right? Somebody's head might explode.

erratio October 23 2006, 00:41:11 UTC

but of course! There can only be one Jesus!

...not counting the many many Jesus' in South America, that is

doctorer October 27 2006, 11:04:14 UTC

The link from "y" to "j" is still through Latin, wherein I and J are the same sound. A long i (j) was written at the beginning of words where i was functioning as a consonant (actually a diphthong), which later evolved to a seperate letter (j as we know it).

Yesu/Yeshu river_of_light January 28 2007, 04:01:11 UTC

You are a Jew, what are you doing asking if the name is Yesu (or Yeshu)? You could just pick up your Hebrew dictionary and see that it is. You really seem to be up on the names. Why ask someone else who might not know, when you could just look it up for yourself? You ended up getting the erroneous stock answer that it is Yeshua or Yehoshua. These pronunciations are erroneous for the name in question. The name whether spelled yod shin waw ayin, or just yod shin waw, is always pronounced Yesu (or Yeshu). Be careful in your research. You had it right the first time.

Re: Yesu/Yeshu erratio January 28 2007, 08:17:03 UTC

I ask because while I may be Jewish and linguistically inclined, there are other people who read my livejournal who are much more so. Simon for instance, did his thesis on an obscure linguistic feature of the Torah, and so trumps me in the areas of both biblical knowledge and Hebrew (also he's Jewish, in case this gives him more authority). Thus I would take his experience over my own as likely to be correct. And now I feel as if I really should research it myself since you seem quite sure of your answer too. Hmm.

For looking it up myself, I don't own a Hebrew dictionary :) Everything I know about both Hebrew and Torah is culled from my 13 year education at a Jewish school.