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  • From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Joshua and Jeshua
  • Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:23:46 PDT


Can anyone shed some light on the relation between Joshua (Yehoshua) and Jeshua. I understand that Jeshua appears in the post-exilic texts like Zechariah. Is Jeshua a later development from Joshua or a contracted form of Joshua? Many thanks.

Tony Costa, B.A.
University of Toronto

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