Yeshua/Yshua: Why do you frequently use Jesus Hebrew name?
Whether some readers realize it or not, TNN Online is a Messianic website which is geared toward presenting Christians to the Hebraic Roots of our faith. In using the Messiahs given Hebrew name of Yeshua/Yshua ([Wvy), as opposed to using Jesus, we reveal an element of our faith that has remained suppressed for almost two millennia. And just as Yeshua is our Savior, so does His name mean He is salvation (Matthew 1:21). Whenever you see the word salvation in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is probably the improper noun form yeshuah (h[Wvy), or a derivation of it. Please note that we are not of the position that the English name Jesus is pagan and a derivative of Zeus as some have advocated. Rather, Jesus is transliterated from the Greek transliteration of Yeshua, Iēsous (Ihsou), which was used by the Jewish translators of the Septuagint to render Yeshua into Greek three centuries before Messiah, and is the title of the Book of Joshua (Yehoshua) in the Septuagint. Now, even though we believe th
