What name was Jesus given?
“Yeshu’a is the Aramaic corruption of Hebrew Yehoshu’a (YHWH saves) which the English mispronounced as Joshua… Galileans had a tendency to drop initial and final vowel sounds. So Elazar was pronounced Lazar and Yeshu’a was shortened to Yeshu (ye-SHOO)… The final ‘s’ was originally added as the normal Greek ending of any Semitic masculine name that ended in a vowel sound, since in Greek only feminine names end in a vowel. The ‘J’ was introduced as the standard long form ‘I’ in the gothic script of the high medieval period.” Mahlon Smith [cite] “Yeshua was the fifth most common Jewish name, 4 out of the 28 Jewish High-Priests in Jesus’ time were called Yeshua.
