Summary of What was the REAL Name of Jesus?

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The YouTube video discusses the various ways that the name "Jesus" may have been pronounced in different languages, and how this may have affected the way that it was spelled. The video also discusses the possibility that the name was a combination of "Joshua" and "Isha."

• 00:00:00 The name of Jesus in the Hebrew Bible is spelled "Yeshua," with an "ah" at the end. This pronunciation wasn't originally in the name, and it's likely that it was affected by the sound of the letter "iron" being created in the back of the throat. This pronunciation is more commonly used in Aramaic, the language Jesus was probably originally known and spoken in.
• 00:05:00 The name Yeshua was originally pronounced Yoshua, and was the dominant form of the name in Judea and the Galilee during the Second Temple Period. It was also found inscribed on bone boxes called ossuaries, and Greek re-enters the scene in the centuries before Jesus around the 3rd Century BCE, and transliterated Yeshua into Greek. The name Jesus appears in the New Testament, and when Joshua the son of Noon is mentioned in the New Testament, he's also called Jesus. This explains why the gospel writers and Paul use the name Jesus in their own writings. The S between two vowels sound like a z, and Jesus is eventually derived from this variation.
• 00:10:00 Some academics argue that the name of Jesus sounded more like "yeshu" or "yeshu completely dropping off the final guttural letter because of a linguistic Quirk of a Galilean accent." There is some evidence for this position, but it is not conclusive. More evidence comes from later Jewish texts which mention Jesus. Jesus is mentioned in some rabbinic texts and there, the form of his name is "yeshu" without an "Ayana" (a sound at the end of a word). This is interesting because there are also mentions in other rabbinic texts saying that Galileans have a hard time pronouncing the "Ayah" and "Aha." One story that Dr. Sushard is referencing comes from the Babylonian Talmud, which says a certain Galilean went around saying to Jews "Do you mean a donkey for writing wine to drink wool for clothes a lamb to kill because if you were sloppy with your gutturals and your vowels, donkey wine wool and lamb could all sound like 'Amar.'" Another tantalizing line of evidence comes from other Semitic languages related to ancient Aramaic like Syriac and Mandelic, which mention Jesus as "Ishu." However, there is a strong possibility that the name had
• 00:15:00 The name "Jesus" is likely a combination of Joshua and Isha, with the latter being pronounced with long vowels and an iron at the end.