What was the REAL Name of Jesus? (feat. Dr. Benjamin Suchard)

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Special thanks to Dr. Benjamin Suchard for his invaluable insights and expertise in consulting on this episode.

What was the actual name of Jesus? Many people know that Jesus's actual Aramaic name was something like: Yeshua. But that is only partially correct. The answer is a little bit more complicated because the final syllable in the original name is a sound that doesn't appear in the English language.

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00:00 Intro: Jesus' Greek name
1:17 The two Joshuas
3:08 Ad break
4:22 The Ayin
5:37 The Sneaky "A"
7:24 The Greek Transliteration of Yeshu'
9:00 The Journey from Iesous to Jesus
10:00 Yeshu or Yeshu(a)?


Bibliography:
Richard Steiner, “A-coloring Consonants and Furtive Patah in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic According to the Tiberian Masorah.

Roey Gafter, “Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV,” in Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race, 2016.

Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel.

Eran Shuali, "Yesu or Yesua'? A Sketch of hte History of Jesus' Names in Hebrew from Antiquity to the Present,"

Matthew Mitchell, "Matthew 26:73 and the Case of the Disappearing Galilean Accent," JBL 139, no. 1 (2020): 107-124

Jonathan Watt, "Of Gutturals and Galileans: The Two Slurs of Matthew 26:73," Diglossia.