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Andy Pearlman@apearlma.bsky.social |
hebrew: "hey, we don't use vowels, so here's this name that is y<vowel>s<vowel>s<vowel> english: "let's make this particular joshua jesus" spanish: "let's make all joshuas jesus"
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kit sparks
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Yeshu’a became Jesus via Greek, where it was Iesous. Then Iesus in Latin, and then the convention came to be to use J for initial I when it is followed by a vowel. Joshua is usually Yehoshu’a, of which Yeshu’a is a contracted form. So, really he should be Josh Christ.
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