Yoshua ben Yousef
Just heard this (in English, yeah) in a speech from a Muslim activist! It was supposed to be a reference to Jesus, but what's up with "Joshua"? Are they one and the same? Ah is konfoosed.Maybe I it...
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Ain't that where they scattered the ashes of country singer Gram Parsons?
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...for that matter, what's a "Judas Tree"? Pynchon incorporates one in one of his chapters in his novel V., but I've never seen an actual botanical reference to such a thing --
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I am a little late on this one but I cant resist throwing my two cents in. Not only was Yeshua a very common name amongst both Hebrew and Aramaic speakers, but it was also the name of another...
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I know the guy you mean, but he isn`t named in either of the only two sources, `The Jewish Wars` and `Antiquities of the Jews`, both by Flavius Josephus. In the first he`s referred to as `the Egyptian...
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Thank you for your response aldiboronti. I will take your word that Josephus doesn't name the Egyptian as "Yeshua". I believe I read this in a book called Bandit, Prophets & Messiahs: Popular...
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I stand corrected. I must have entwined the figures of the Egyptian and Yeshua ben Ananias, the "Woe to Jerusalem" yokel (War, VI, 290-330 ish). Thanks for correcting me on this aldiboranti. The...
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I think this has already been answered, at least implicitly: Greek was the dominant language of the early Christian church, and Jesus is the (Latinized form of the) Hellenized version of the name. The...
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It is now the Joshua Tree National *Park,* but before 1994 it was a national forest (the difference being that parks are administered by the Interior Dept, and forests by the Agriculture Dept.) I...
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And for some time (including when the movie was filmed there, I think) it was the Joshua Tree National Monument.
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Dr. Techie,I have always understood that the received text (regarding the Pentateuch/Old Testament), for both the Jerusalem Bible, the Catholic Bible & KJV, was derived from the Septuagint. As I...
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Yow! That's a might agressive spell checker you've got there--"Hyalinization"!?Not sure about the others, and I don't have the appropriate references handy, but I do know that for the KJV, the...
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The Joshua Tree is indigenous to the Mohave and other high desert areas (NV and CA) and is a form of catus. The branches look like arms upstretched toward heaven. The street legend (here in Vegas) is...
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Dr Techie,Sorry about the spell check thing.I realize this is a serious digression, but I am interested in your statement about the KJV having consulted the Hebrew. My IMPERFECT understanding of this...
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I don't get it. Is there actually a verb "Hyalinize"?I cannot recall ever hearing about the Hyalinic Wars, for that matter. But it does seem like a reasonable form, IMHO.
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Randy,You may be right about the Jewish texts; I don't have the appropriate references handy and have already spent more time poking around the Web on this than I can afford. I have to say it seems...
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>>there was a time when all Hebrew copies of the Torah were lost.you don't say! so, the torah is a backformation?
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One of the news commentators on WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, is named Shirley Jahad (pronounced "Ja-HAHD," just like... well, you know.)I've always thought she should be assigned to cover the Middle...
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>>Hebrew texts floating around when the KJV was being compiled... were based on the Septuagint>>I thought that was the really significant thing about the Dead Sea Scrolls: there were...
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Randy:I have often wondered if scholars consciously decided to keep the Greek rendering of Yeshua in order to distinguish the Christ figure from other historical figure like Joshua or "Yeshua, the...
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why both forms of yeshua (joshua and jesus) then?seems to me to be simply a matter or usage. . .the name jesus in its latin form had been long in use, but the name joshua is more correct. a good...
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