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Yeshua(Hebrew:יֵשׁוּעַ,romanized:Yēšūaʿ‍) was a common alternative form of the nameYehoshua(Hebrew:יְהוֹשֻׁעַ,romanized:Yəhōšūaʿ,lit. 'Joshua') in later books of theHebrew Bibleand among Jews of theSecond Temple period.The name corresponds to the Greek spellingIesous(Ἰησοῦς), from which, through the LatinIESVS/Iesus,comes the English spellingJesus.[1][2]

The Hebrew spellingYēšūaʿ(ישוע) appears in some later books of the Hebrew Bible. Once forJoshuathe son of Nun, and 28 times forJoshua the High Priestand other priests called Jeshua – although these same priests are also given the spelling Joshua in 11 further instances in the books ofHaggaiandZechariah.It differs from the usual Hebrew Bible spelling of Joshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ,Yəhōšūaʿ‍), found 218 times in the Hebrew Bible, in the absence of the consonanthe(ה) and placement of thesemivowelvav(ו) after, not before, the consonantshin(ש). It also differs from the Hebrew spellingYeshu(ישו) which is found inBen-Yehuda Dictionaryand used in most secular contexts inModern Hebrewto refer toJesus,although the Hebrew spellingYēšūaʿ(ישוע) is generally used intranslations of the New Testament into Hebrew[3]and used by Hebrew-speaking Christians in Israel. The name Yeshua is also used in Hebrew historical texts to refer to other Joshuas recorded in Greek texts such asJesus ben AnaniasandJesus ben Sira.[4]

In English, the name Yeshua is extensively used by followers ofMessianic Judaism,[5]whereasEast SyriacChristian denominations use the nameʿIshoin order to preserve the Syriac name of Jesus.[6]The 2004 filmThe Passion of the Christ,which was made inAramaic,used Yeshua as the name of Jesus and is the most well-known western Christian work to have done so.[7]

Etymology

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Main article:Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament
The Greek transliterationἸησοῦς(Iēsous) *jesu-os →[jeˈsus]can stand for both Classical Biblical HebrewYəhōšūaʿ[jəhoˈʃuaʕ](top two) and Late Biblical HebrewYēšūaʿ[jeˈʃuaʕ](bottom). This later form developed within Hebrew (not Aramaic).[8]All three spelling variants occur in the Hebrew Bible, including when referring to the same person. During the Second Temple period, Jews of Galilee tended to preserve the traditional spelling, keeping theוletter for the[o]in the first syllable, even adding another letter for the[u]in the second syllable. However, Jews of Jerusalem tended to spell the name as they pronounced it,[jeˈʃuaʕ],contracting the spelling toישועwithout the[o]letter. Later, Aramaic references to the Hebrew Bible adopted the contracted phonetic form of this Hebrew name as an Aramaic name.

The nameיֵשׁוּעַ,Yeshua(transliterated in the English Old Testament as Jeshua), is a late form of the Biblical Hebrew nameיְהוֹשֻׁעַ,Yehoshua(Joshua), and spelled with awawin the second syllable. The Late Biblical Hebrew spellings for earlier names often contracted the theophoric elementYeho-toYo-.Thus,יהוחנן,Yehochanan,contracted toיוחנן,Yochanan.[8]

Yeshua in Hebrew is a verbal derivative from "to rescue", "to deliver".[9]Among the Jews of the Second Temple period, theBiblical Aramaic/Hebrew nameיֵשׁוּעַ,Yēšūaʿwas common: the Hebrew Bible mentions several individuals with this name – while also using their full name Joshua. This name is a feature of biblical books written in the post-Exilic period (Ezra,Nehemiah,andChronicles) and was found in theDead Sea Scrolls,though Haggai and Zechariah prefer the spelling Joshua.Strong's Concordanceconnects the nameיֵשׁוּעַ,Yēšūaʿ,in the English form Jeshua (as used in multiple instances in Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 and 2 Chronicles), with the verb "to deliver" (or, "to rescue" ).[9]It is often translated as "He saves," to conform with Matthew 1:21:[10]"She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins".[11]

The nameישועoccurs in the Hebrew of the Old Testament at verses Ezra 2:2, 2:6, 2:36, 2:40, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:18, 4:3, 8:33; Nehemiah 3:19, 7:7, 7:11, 7:39, 7:43, 8:7, 8:17, 9:4, 9:5, 11:26, 12:1, 12:7, 12:8, 12:10, 12:24, 12:26; 1 Chronicles 24:11; and 2 Chronicles 31:15, and also in Aramaic at Ezra 5:2. In Nehemiah 8:17 this name refers to Joshua son of Nun, the successor of Moses, as leader of the Israelites. In earlier English (where adaptations of names of Biblical figures were generally based on the LatinVulgateforms), Yeshua was generally transcribed identically to "Jesus" in English.

The name Yehoshua has the form of a compound of "Yeho-" and "shua":Yeho-(יְהוֹ) is another form ofיָהו,Yahu,a theophoric element standing for the name of God,יהוה(theTetragrammatonYHWH, sometimes transcribed into English asYahweh), andשׁוּעַ,shua'is a noun meaning "a cry for help", "a saving cry",[12][13][14]that is to say, a shout given when in need of rescue.

Another explanation for the name Yahoshua is that it comes from the rootישע,yod-shin-ʿayin,meaning "to deliver, save, or rescue". According to theBook of Numbersverse 13:16, the name of Joshua, the son of Nun was originallyHosheaʿ(הוֹשֵעַ), and the nameYehoshuaʿ(יְהוֹשֻׁעַ) is usually spelled the same but with ayodadded at the beginning. "Hosheaʿ" certainly comes from the rootישע,yasha,yod-shin-ʿayin(in theHif'ilform theyodbecomes awaw), and not from the wordשוע,šûaʿ.)[15]

In the 1st century,Philo of Alexandria,in a Greek exposition, offered this understanding of Moses's reason for the name change of the biblical heroJehoshua/Joshua son of Nun from Hoshea (similar tohoshiaʿ,meaning "He rescued" ) to Yahoshua in commemoration of his salvation: "AndΙησουςrefers to salvation of the Lord "[ΙησουςorIesousbeing the Greek form of the name] (Ἰησοῦ δὲ σωτηρία κυρίου) (On the Change of Names21.121).[16]

Similarly, theSeptuagint[17]rendersBen Siraas saying (in the Greek form of the name): "Ιησουςthe son of Naue [Yahoshua Ben Nun] whoaccording to his namebecame great unto [the] salvation/deliverance of his chosen ones "(Ἰησοῦς Ναυῆ.. ὃς ἐγένετο κατὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ μέγας ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ) (Ben Sira 46:1–2). However,Ben Siraoriginally wrote in Hebrew in the second century BC, and the only extant Hebrew manuscript for this passage has "in his days" (בימיו), not "according to his name" (which would beכשמוin Hebrew),[18]and thus does not comment on the name Yahoshua as connotingיְּשׁוּעָה"deliverance": "Yahoshua Ben Nun, who was formed to bein his daysa great deliverer for his chosen ones "(יהושע בן נון... אשר נוצר להיות בימיו תשועה גדלה לבחיריו).

Archaeological evidence

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Tal Ilan's Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity (2002) includes for "Joshua" 85 examples of HebrewYēšūaʿ,15 ofYəhōšūaʿ,and 48 examples ofIesousin Greek inscriptions, "with only one Greek variant asIesoua.[19]One ossuary of the around twenty known with the name Yeshua, Rahmani No.9, discovered byEzra Sukenikin 1931, has "Yeshu... Yeshua ben Yosef." The "Yeshu..." may have been scratched out.</ref>[20]TwoJewish magical incantation bowlshave been discovered both bearing variant spellings of Yeshua.[21]

Apart from the "Yeshua... Yeshua ben Yosef" ossuary, the only other known evidence for the existence of a Yeshua form prior to the material related toJesus in the Talmud,is a graffito whichJoachim Jeremiasidentified in Bethesda in 1966, but which is now filled in.[22]

Pronunciation

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InYēšūaʿ(יֵשוּעַ,[jeˈʃuăʕ]), the Hebrew letteryod(י,/j/is vocalized with the Hebrew voweltsere(/e/,a 'long'elike the first syllable of "neighbor" but notdiphthongized), rather than with ashva(/ə/,as Y'shua) orsegol(/ɛ/,Yesh-shua). The final letter,ayin(ע) is/ʕ/(a voiced pharyngeal sound not found in Greek or English), sometimes transcribed"ʿ"(Yeshuaʿ). The final[ăʕ]represents the "patach genuvah" ( "furtive"patach), indicating that the consonantʿayinis pronounced after theavowel, and the word's stress is moved to the middle syllable (the characteristics of the furtive patach can be seen in other words, such asרוח,[ˈruăħ]'spirit').[23]Thus it is pronounced[jeˈʃu.a(ʔ)]in Modern Hebrew.

The Hebrew name of Jesus is probably pronouncedYeshuaʿ,although this is uncertain and depends on the reconstruction of several ancient Hebrew dialects. Talshir suggests, even though Galileans tended to keep the traditional spelling forYehoshuaʿיהושועwithwawfor/o/,they still pronounced the name similarly to the Judeans, as 'Yeshua'[jeˈʃuaʕ],who tended to spell the name phonetically asישוע,perhaps reducing the name thus:[jəhoˈʃuaʕ]>[joˈʃuaʕ]>[jeˈʃuaʕ],with the/o/palatalizing(viadissimilation) before the/ʃ/.[24]

Qimron describes the general linguistic environment of Hebrew dialects by the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The articulation of the/h/(along with other guttural phonemes/ʔ/,/ħ/,and/ʕ/,as well as approximants/j/and/w/)lenitedsignificantly.[25]Thus Hebrew pronunciations became less stable when two successive vowels were no longer separated by a consonant/h/.The speakers optionally either reduced the two vowels to a single vowel or oppositely expanded them to emphasize each vowel separately, sometimes forming a furtive glide in between,[w]or[j].[26]For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls spell the Hebrew wordראוי(/rɔˈʔui̯/,'seen') variously, recording both pronunciations: reducedראו([ro]) and expandedראואי([rɔˈuwi]).[27]

The Hebrew name Yahoshua generally reduced to Yeshua, but an expanded Yahoshua is possible, especially in Galilee, whose traditional orthography possibly reflects this.

Original name for Jesus

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The English nameJesusderives from theLate LatinnameIesus,which transliterates theKoineGreek nameἸησοῦςIēsoûs.

In theSeptuagintand other Greek-languageJewishtexts, such as the writings ofJosephusandPhilo of Alexandria,Ἰησοῦς(Iēsoûs) is the standard Koine Greek form used to translate both of the Hebrew names: Yahoshua and Yeshua. The GreekἸησοῦςorIēsoûsis also used to represent the name of Joshua son of Nun in the New Testament passages Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8. (It was even used in the Septuagint to translate the nameHosheain one of the three verses where this referred to Joshua the son of Nun—Deuteronomy 32:44.)

During the second Temple period (beginning 538 BC–70 AD), Yeshua first became a known form of the name Yahoshua. All occurrences of Yeshua in the Hebrew Bible are in 1Chronicles24:11, 2 Chronicles 31:15,Ezra,andNehemiahwhere it is transliterated into English asJeshua.Two of these men (Joshua the son of Nun and Joshua the High Priest) are mentioned in other books of the Hebrew Bible where they are instead called Yahoshua[28](transliterated into English as Joshua).

The earlier form Yahoshua did not disappear, however, and remained in use as well. In the post-exilic books, Joshua the son of Nun is called both Yeshua bin-Nun (Nehemiah 8:17) and Yahoshua (1 Chronicles 7:27). The short form Yeshua was used forJesus ben Sirachin Hebrew fragments of theWisdom of Sirach.(Some concern remains over whether these fragments faithfully represent the original Hebrew text or are instead a later translation back into Hebrew.)[29]The earlier form Yahoshua saw revived usage from theHasmoneanperiod onwards, although the name Yeshua is still found in letters from the time of theBar Kokhba Revolt(132–135 AD).

In the documentaryThe Lost Tomb of Jesus,archeologistAmos Klonerstated that the name Yeshua was then a popular form of the name Yahoshua and was "one of the common names in the time of theSecond Temple."[30]In discussing whether it was remarkable to find a tomb with the name of Jesus (the particular ossuary in question bears the inscription "Yehuda bar Yeshua" ), he pointed out that the name had been found 71 times in burial caves from that time period.[31]

Thus, both the full form Yahoshua and the abbreviated form Yeshua were in use during the Gospel period – and in relation to the same person, as in the Hebrew Bible references to Yahoshua/Yeshua son of Nun, and Yahoshua/Yeshua the high priest in the days of Ezra. An argument in favor of the Hebrew reduced formישוע,Yeshua,as opposed to Yahoshua, is theWestern Syriac language,in which the pronunciation isYeshuʿ/jeʃuʕ/.

East SyriacIshoʿ

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YeshuuʿorIshoʿ,the Syriac name ofJesus

AramaicandClassical Syriacrender the pronunciation of the same letters asܝܫܘܥyeshuuʿ (yešuʿ)/jeʃuʕ/andܝܫܘܥishoʿ (išoʿ)/iʃoʕ/.The Aramaic Bibles and the SyriacPeshittapreserve these same spellings. Current scholarly consensus posits that the New Testament texts were translated from the Greek, but this theory is not supported directly at least by the name for Jesus, which is not a simple transliteration of the Greek form as would otherwise be expected, as Greek did not have a "sh"[ʃ]sound, and substituted[s];and likewise lacked and therefore omitted the finalʿayn([ʕ]). Moreover,Eusebius(early 4th century) reports thatPapias of Hierapolis(early 2nd century) reports that Jesus's discipleMatthew the Evangelistwrote agospel"in the Hebrew language". (Scholars typically argue the word "Hebrew" in the New Testament refers to Aramaic;[32]however, others have attempted to refute this view.)[33]The Aramaic of the Peshitta does not distinguish betweenJoshuaandJesus,and the Lexicon ofWilliam Jenningsgives the same form ofܝܫܘܥfor both names.[6]The Hebrew final letterʿayin(ע) is equivalent to finalܥin Syriac varieties of Aramaic. It can be argued that Aramaic speakers who used this name had a continual connection to the Aramaic-speakers in communities founded by theapostlesand other students of Jesus, thus independently preserved his historical name Yeshuuʿ and the Eastern dialecticalIshoʿ.Those churches following theEast Syriac Ritestill preserve the nameIshoʿ.

In theTalmud,only one reference is made to the spelling Yeshuaʿ, in verbatim quotation from the Hebrew Bible regarding Jeshua son of Jozadak (elsewhere called Joshua son of Josedech). The Talmud does refer to several people named Yahoshua from before (e.g.Joshua ben Perachyah) and after Jesus (e.g.,Joshua ben Hananiah). In references toJesus in the Talmud,however, where the name occurs, it is rendered Yeshu, which is a name reserved in Aramaic and Hebrew literature from the early medieval period until today, solely for Jesus, not for other Joshuas. Some scholars, such asMaier(1978), regard the two named "Yeshuʿ" texts in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a and 107b) to be later amendments, and not original.[34]

Rabbinical commentary on the difference Yeshuʿ/Yeshuaʿ

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In general rabbinical sources, the name Yeshuʿ is used, and this is the form to which some named references toJesus in the Talmudas Yeshu occur in some manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, though some scholars, such asMaier(1978) have argued that the presence of the name Yeshuʿ in these texts is a late interpolation. Some of the Hebrew sources referencing Yeshu include theToledot Yeshu,The Book of Nestor the Priest,Jacob ben Reuben'sMilhamoth ha-Shem,Sefer Nizzahon Yashan,Sefer Joseph Hamekane,the works ofibn Shaprut,Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas,andHasdai Crescas.[citation needed]

The name Yeshu is unknown in archeological sources and inscriptions, except for one ossuary found in Israel which has an inscription where someone has started to write first "Yeshu.." and then written "Yeshuaʿ bar Yehosef" beneath it.[20]There are 24 other ossuaries to various Yeshuas and Yahoshuas. None of the others have Yeshu. All other "Joshuas" in the Talmud, rabbinical writings, modern Hebrew, are always Yeshua or Yahoshua. There are no undisputed examples of any Aramaic or Hebrew text where Yeshu refers to anyone else than Jesus.[35]

Some of rabbinical sources comment on the reasons for the missingʿaynfrom Yeshu, as opposed to the Hebrew Bible Yeshuaʿ and Yahoshuaʿ.Leon Modenaargues that it was Jesus himself who made his disciples remove theʿayn,and that therefore they cannot now restore it. (Modena was a 17th-century polemicist and does not have reliable linguistic evidence for the claim.) A tradition states that the shortening to Yeshu relates to the Y-SH-U of theyimach shemo,"may his name be obliterated."[36][37]Against thisDavid Flussersuggested that the nameYeshuitself was "in no way abusive," but "almost certainly" a Galilean dialect form of Yeshua.[38]But E.Y. Kutscher showed that theʿaynwas still pronounced in Galilee, refuting a thesis by Paul Kahle.[39]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Ilan, Tal (2002).Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity Part I: Palestine 330 BCE–200 CE (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 91).Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr. p. 129.
  2. ^Stern, David (1992).Jewish New Testament Commentary.Clarksville, Maryland: Jewish New Testament Publications. pp. 4–5.
  3. ^Franz DelitzschHebrew New Testament,Matthew 1:1, BFBS 1877,Isaac SalkinsohnHebrew New TestamentMatthew 1:1, TBS 1891
  4. ^Robert E. Van Voorst Jesus outside the New Testament 2000ISBN978-0-8028-4368-5p124 "This is likely an inference from the Talmud and other Jewish usage, where Jesus is called Yeshu, and other Jews with the same name are called by the fuller name Yehoshua," Joshua ""
  5. ^Kjær-Hansen, Kai."An Introduction to the Names Yehoshua/Joshua, Yeshua, Jesus and Yeshu".Jews for Jesus Headquarters.Retrieved27 March2014.
  6. ^ab"Word 'y$w('".dukhrana.com.Retrieved1 April2018.
  7. ^The Passion of the Christ,retrieved2020-01-23
  8. ^abDavid Talmshir (1998) [or David Talshir]. "Rabbinic Hebrew as Reflected in Personal Names".Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Vol. 37. Jerusalem: Magnes Press: Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  9. ^abBrown-Driver-Briggs[A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament].Hendrickson Publishers. 1996.ISBN1-56563-206-0.
  10. ^Matthew 1:21
  11. ^"The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1990)
  12. ^"וֹשֻׁשׁוּעַ", Ernest Klein,A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language(New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1987), where it means "a cry for help".
  13. ^"וֹשֻׁשׁוּעַ", William L. Holladay,A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament(Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing 1971), where it means "a cry for help".
  14. ^"שָׁוַע", M. Jastrow,Dictionary of the Talmudreprinted (Jerusalem: Khorev 1990), where שׁוֹשֻׁוּעַ is explained by the verb "to cry for help",
  15. ^"JOSHUA (JEHOSHUA)".Jewish Encyclopedia.Funk and Wagnalls.1901-06-19.
  16. ^Farber, Zev (11 July 2016).Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception.De Gruyter. p. 159.ISBN978-3-11-034336-6.[Per Philo's interpretation of the name Joshua as "salvation of the Lord" ] since Joshua [Hoshea] is such an excellent person, it would be more fitting for him to receive this "most excellent of names" (ὄνομα τῆς άρίστης). [On the Change of Names - De Mutatione Nominum -Mut.]
  17. ^Taylor, Bernard Alwyn (2009),Analytical lexicon to the Septuagint,Hendrickson Publishers, p. 286,ISBN978-1-56563-516-6,[New Testament uses Ἰησοῦ as the dative, Septuagint uses] Ἰησοῖ pr noun masc dat sg.... Ἰησοῦς
  18. ^Segel, Moshe Tsvi (1953). "Chapter 46 verse 2".Sefer Ben-Sira Hash-Shalem.Mosad Byalik. p. 317.
  19. ^Buried Hope Or Risen Savior: The Search for the Jesus Tomb2008 p81 Charles Quarles – 2008 "The distinction between the longer and shorter forms does not exist in Greek. The Greek Iesous (Ineous) was used to represent both Yehoshua' and Yeshua'. There are 48 instances of Iesous (Iesous and several eccentric spellings),"
  20. ^abHershel Shanks;Ben Witherington.Brother of Jesus.pp. 59–60.Photo of the "Yeshu... Yeshua bar Yehosef" ossuary and dual inscription.
  21. ^Incantation bowls in Montgomery and Moussaief/Levene 2002. See transcription in Bauckham essay in Quarles.
  22. ^New Testament theology Joachim Jeremias – 1977 "... 1965, 284–93: 285; a graffito which I found in the south wall of the southern pool at Bethesda, now covered in, also read [y\fw ', see my: The Rediscovery of Bethesda, New Testament Archaeology Monograph No I, Louisville, Ky., 1966,..."
  23. ^"The Furtive Patach".www.hebrew4christians.com.Retrieved1 April2018.
  24. ^Talshir 1998:374,376.
  25. ^Elisha Qimron,The Hebrew Of The Dead Sea Scrolls,Scholars Press, Harvard Semitic Studies vol. 29, 1986:25.
  26. ^Qimron:26, 31–35.
  27. ^Qimron:35.
  28. ^Price, James D.Yehoshua, Yeshua or Yeshu; Which one is the name of Jesus in Hebrew?,accessed March 6, 2006.
  29. ^William Chomsky,Hebrew: The Eternal Language,Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957 p.140
  30. ^Mendel, Roi (25 February 2007)."Ha-" chasifa "shel qever Yeshu: qiddum mkhirot".Yedioth Ahronoth.Retrieved2007-02-27.
  31. ^Pilkington, Ed; McCarthy, Rory (27 February 2007)."Is this really the last resting place of Jesus, Mary Magdalene – and their son".The Guardian.Retrieved2007-02-27.
  32. ^"HEBREW LANGUAGE".Wycliffe Bible Dictionary.Hendrickson Publishers. 1975.
  33. ^Buth, Randall, and Pierce, Chad. "Ebraisti in Ancient Texts: Does Ἐβραϊστί ever Mean" Aramaic "?" Buth and Notley, ed.,The Language Environment in First Century Judea.Brill, 2014.
  34. ^J. MaierJesus von Nazareth1978. G. Theissen,Historical Jesus.1998. R. VoorstJesus outside the New Testament2000
  35. ^Jesus outside the New Testament p124 Robert E. Van Voorst – 2000 "This is likely an inference from the Talmud and other Jewish usage, where Jesus is called Yeshu, and other Jews with the same name are called by the fuller name Yehoshua," Joshua "(e.g., b Sanh. 107b on p."
  36. ^Michael H. Cohen A Friend of All Faiths – Page 42 – 2004 "In Hebrew school, one of my teachers had explained that Yeshu (Hebrew for Jesus), rather than meaning" Saviour, "in fact was an acronym that stood for yimach shemo ve-zichrono:" may his name and memory be erased "
  37. ^Proceedings: Volume 4 Aḳademyah ha-le'umit ha-Yiśre'elit le-mada'im – 1969 "Perhaps the most significant of these is the passage where instead of the printed 'that certain man' we find 'Jesus the Nazarene — may his name be obliterated' (thus also in a Genizah MS, British Museum, Or. 91842)."
  38. ^New Testament theologyJoachim Jeremias– 1977 "... deliberate truncation made for anti-Christian motives; rather, it is 'almost certainly' (Flusser, Jesus, 13) the Galilean pronunciation of the name; the swallowing of theʿayinwas typical of the Galilean dialect (Billerbeck I 156f.
  39. ^E.Y. Kutscher, Studies in Galilean Aramaic, 1976.
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