Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Alexander Oldernes <alexander AT oldernes.no>]

It's pretty clear that Jesus' name was something like Yeshua or Yehoshua.

The website doesn't explain where the wovel "o" comes from.
The teophoric names indicate that the divine name is something like Yeho-,
and the contracted form Yah indicates a wovel "a", thus Yeho-a.

An attempt to twist it into "Yahoshua" without any clear evidence seems to me 
as just another poor attempt to support Yahwe as the divine name. For me it 
looks like some has 'decided' that the divine name must be Yahwe, and 
therefore the teophoric names must be adjusted to fit this theory.


Alexander Oldernes
Norway
www.divinename.no


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baruj Diez" <barujdiez AT yahoo.es>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yahoshua/Yehoshua


I  want to thank Herman and Thomas for their replies. I
was  reading  a  book  where  the  author says that the
original  name  was  "Yahoshua" and then the rabbinical
tradition  changed it to "Yehoshua." I have searched my
dictionaries,  but  I  have  not  been able to find any
reference  to "Yahoshua." I have found a similar remark
on the Net:

      (The   so-called   "Sacred  Name"  movement  that
      purports  that  the "true name" of the Messiah is
      "YAHushua"   or   "YAHoshua"   (or  some  variant
      thereof)  is  founded  on  faulty linguistics and
      esoteric  doctrine.  These  people think that the
      sacred  Name  (YHVH)  is best rendered as YAHWEH,
      and  suppose that since Jesus said He came in His
      Father's  Name  (John  5:34),  YAH  must  somehow
      appear  in  the  spelling  of this name. Hence we
      have   YAHshua,   or   YAHoshua,  or  some  other
      spelling.  This interpoloation of the phoneme YAH
      comes  at  the  expense of the original Masoretic
      text  and  standard  Hebrew  usage.  Some in this
      movement  go  so  far  as to believe that you can
      only  be  saved  if you pronounce the Sacred Name
      correctly!  As a friend of mine pointed out, this
      teaching  is  inherently  anti-semitic,  since in
      order for this to be true, the "rabbis" must have
      corrupted  the  text  and  deceived  the  people.
      Moreover,   according  to  them,  the  Greek  New
      Testament  text has been corrupted as well, since
      it does not directly contain the Sacred Name).

      
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Hebrew_Glossary_-_J/hebrew_glossary_-_j.html

Since  I don't know what to think, I decided to ask you
who know much more than I.

   Thank you and best wishes,

-- 
   Baruj Diez
     Asturias, España



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