According to an article in this morning's Daily Mail, scholars believe that 'Jesus' would have gone by a name in his own native language of Aramaic which is nothing like our modern version. In fact, the name 'Jesus' even contains letters that weren't used in written language until 1,500 years after his death.
Throughout Christianity's 2,000-year history, Jesus' original name has been obscured by layers of translation and transliteration. Jesus' name travelled a long-linguistic road from his own Aramaic into Hebrew, then to Greek and into Latin before it could ever receive an English translation in the 16th century.
Likewise, experts say that Jesus' last name was definitely not 'Christ' but would have actually been based on his home town.
That means Jesus' real name was most likely Yeshu Nazareen.
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What the hell! You mean Jesus didn't speak English?
ReplyDeleteActually, His name was Yeshua Ben Joseph of Nazareth. Christ is a title.
ReplyDelete{ Jesus' last name was definitely not 'Christ'} - wow. Leave it to the Daily Mail. Next they'll be edumacating me that Lady's last name isn't Gaga.
ReplyDeleteNow start questioning the "teachings" that were NOT written by him, not even written down until long after he spoke them, translated into language after language, controlled by the most powerful political organizations on the planet at the time, censored/altered/selected by those same folks, etc. Just the choice of which gospels to ALLOW should tell you everything you need to know about the "quality" of the message with regards to divine understanding.
ReplyDeleteYou have some of the form, but none of the understanding of how the books of the Bible were selected, translated, or maintained. The translations of the Bible start with the best preserved copies of the original Greek (New Testament) or Hebrew (Old Testament) and then work to translate into language desired (e.g., English). They do not translate from Greek to Latin to English.
DeleteParaphrase versions of the Bible (e.g., the Living Word) "translate" from older forms of English into modern speech. Biblical scholars do not use these versions for effectively the reasons you hinted at, effectively communication errors analogous to the game of telephone.
The church in Rome always marched to a different drummer, and actively inserted heresies into the religion. Praying to the dead, the reestablishment of priest craft which Jesus abolished to just name two.
The "teachings" argument goes nowhere if you understand what you reading. The Bible stands scrutiny and its history is so reliable even atheists use it as a reference. The late writing arguments around the New Testament fall apart as there is no mention of the sacking of the temple in Jerusalem in AD70. That was a huge deal at the time and its absence means the New Testament was written by then - within the lifetimes of witnesses.
DeleteAnd to finish this off, the actual biblical name we use for Yeshua is Joshua.
ReplyDeleteA Jesus by any other name....
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