[MacDV] Re: Happy Easter all!

[James Asherman]

On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 01:36  PM, Benjamin Ing wrote:

> Is it a chicken or egg? Was Jesus a Spanish name before Christianity, 
> or did it become popular because of Christianity?
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There simply was no language designated as Spanish during Jesus' time.
Didn't exist.
Over the next 700 years the Spanish language developed and developed 
further fromm it's original origins of LATIN, which was spoken by the 
ROMANS in Jesus' time.
Jesus is a Latinization of Yeshua or joshua as pointed out before.
In lands where Spanish is the main language and Catholicism popular at 
least until recently (Phillipines for instance) one finds Jesus to be a 
popular name.

J