Yeshua to Jesus in Twelve Centuries
or Y'shua (ישוע with vowel pointing יֵשׁוּעַ – Yēšūaʿ in Hebrew) was a common alternative form of the name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yəhōšūaʿ – Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous (Ἰησοῦς), from which [...]