[MacDV] Re: Happy Easter all!

[Erica Sadun]

>on 4/12/04 6:55 AM, Robert Rothgery at rfrothgery at earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>  Actually his name was Jessua bar Joseph.  His native languages were
>>  probably Aramaic and Hebrew.
>
>Y'shua ben Y'seph...it means Joshua, son (or child) of Joseph

There are actually vowels there... Yeshua and Yosef.
You don't have to apostrophize. The germanic Y sound
for J makes that Jeshua or Jessua and Josef or Joseph.

Bar is simply the aramaic equivalent of the hebrew ben.
(e.g. the Bar Kochba revolt).

Just as a final note, many Jews violently dislike the
use of Yeshua for Jesus. It's emblematic of the
"Jews for Jesus" and "Hebrew Christians" movements
that attempt to convert ignorant and assimilated Jews
by telling them that you can be Christian without giving
up Judaism.

-- Erica
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