What was the REAL Name of Jesus?

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    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.

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  • @ReligionForBreakfast
    @ReligionForBreakfast  Рік тому +103

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    • @derekstaroba
      @derekstaroba Рік тому +2

      Ja - zeus

    • @darklordots
      @darklordots Рік тому

      Limited POA?

    • @alananimus9145
      @alananimus9145 Рік тому +2

      I am really glad this video exists. Now how about the apostles?

    • @derekstaroba
      @derekstaroba Рік тому +3

      @@alananimus9145 also you can see the letter yod in yeshua name. This is the smallest letter in that alphabet and jesus aka yeshua mentioned it cleverly when he said not one jot of the law shall pass away. This is also the first letter of the tetragammatron of yod he vav he which god said who he was to moses at the burning bush (i am who i am or i am what i shall prove to be or simply i am the truth)

    • @juniorpatriciocruz53
      @juniorpatriciocruz53 Рік тому +3

      Jesus Fictional Christ

  • @pablocamusoyarzun7502
    @pablocamusoyarzun7502 Рік тому +1715

    As a linguist, I really appreciate you included IPA transcriptions for each potential pronunciation of Yeshua.

    • @Armelion1Music
      @Armelion1Music Рік тому +3

      👏👏👏👏👏

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому +7

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @TechBearSeattle
      @TechBearSeattle Рік тому +116

      @@termination9353 - Sure, let's just ignore two professional scholars and accept your thoughts on the matter.

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому +8

      ​@@TechBearSeattle What makes you think I'm not a scholar? And being on youboob doesn't make one a professional. I was born and raised Orthodox Jew read and write Hebrew and studied in Yeshiva - Talmud, Zohar Kabbala, and Baal Shem Tov.
      These guys talk some extra biblical stuff in making their case but they are Bible and Gospel illiterates. John 4:22
      Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

    • @rootkite
      @rootkite Рік тому +41

      I agree the phonetic transcriptions are very helpful! But they aren't IPA; for instance, the voiceless alveolar fricative would be transcribed as /ʃ/ and not as in this (fantastic) video, and the vowel lengths would also not be represented by diacritics. It appears to be NAPA in fact; regardless, the phonological representations do really help :)

  • @TalLikesThat
    @TalLikesThat Рік тому +950

    As a Hebrew speaker this is fascinating! In modern hebrew we see the guttural vowels disappear too. Thank you, Andrew, great video as usual.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому +65

      free palestine

    • @TalLikesThat
      @TalLikesThat Рік тому +125

      @@starcapture3040 I, as Jewish Israeli man fully agree. A Palestinian state is long overdue right here where they lived for centuries. Sadly, I am in the minority here. It's so freaking frustrating that seeing the Palestinian people as, well, people, is a radical opinion today. It is infuriating.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому +7

      @@TalLikesThat So you agree for one democratic secular civil state with new constitution and flag. including return of the Palestinian refugees to their cities?

    • @mikenyr4life491
      @mikenyr4life491 Рік тому +34

      @@starcapture3040 That has already happened when Israel shook off the shackles of Islamic Imperialism and reclaimed Israel. Pre 1964 if you called a Muslim in Israel a Palestinian they would have killed you the same as you calling them a Jew. Go and look at the 1938 Palestine Flag with a Star of David on it, or the Palestinian coins with Menorahs and Stars of David on them, or even look at the Palestine Museum that only has a photo of Arafat in it and is otherwise empty.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому

      @@mikenyr4life491 There is no such thing as israel in history. imagine naming land of others by some jews who immigrated to it from Mesopotamia by this word The one who wrestled with god. israel has only right to exist in the Torah no where else unless you think british imperialism is way go but pooo Muslims who allowed jews into the land of the aramaic canaanites again after being completely banished by Christion romans who named the jews as jesus killers. Palestine belong to its people the brits have no right to occupy other people 's land than give the land to settlers who decided the land belong to them by God signature... this tragic and laughable at the same time.

  • @macc274
    @macc274 Рік тому +173

    In Hindi and Indian languages we've always called him Yeshu "येशु"

    • @Sephiroth144
      @Sephiroth144 Рік тому +11

      Gesundheit.

    • @piyush93688
      @piyush93688 Рік тому +6

      Not always. Christians themselves exclusively use Yeshu. I've been to church. But commonly he is called Isa which is a borrowing from Arabic.

    • @user-mz7bh1eh9v
      @user-mz7bh1eh9v Рік тому +15

      In Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu we actually call him ईसा (Isa), not येशू

    • @YoniIsrael
      @YoniIsrael Рік тому +2

      this is also how modern hebrew callls him

    • @Johnny-pj9hd
      @Johnny-pj9hd Рік тому +1

      Yehshua still wrong, correctly its Yahshua represents Yah and Shua is salvation so Yahshua

  • @arisuaozora
    @arisuaozora Рік тому +21

    As a cantonese speaker, we address Jesus as Yesou which amazingly close to the original pronunciation despite both languages comes from different era and region.

    • @bradamdor2843
      @bradamdor2843 Місяць тому

      As a Cantonese you should call on the MASHIAH of YISRAEL by HIS TRUE NAME. It's a no brainer brother !!! Only HIS HEBREW NAME MEANS SALVATION.

  • @leopoldbroom7679
    @leopoldbroom7679 Рік тому +714

    Andrew always comes out with the most interesting topics.

    • @ReligionForBreakfast
      @ReligionForBreakfast  Рік тому +225

      I thought this would be an easy video to write. Easy answer: "Yeshua." Then I dug too deep into the scholarship on pharyngeal consonants O_o

    • @calvincoolidge8109
      @calvincoolidge8109 Рік тому +10

      @@ReligionForBreakfast MOMMY!!!

    • @mr.god.complex
      @mr.god.complex Рік тому

      @@calvincoolidge8109 ayo dude ain’t u dead?

    • @alpha4IV
      @alpha4IV Рік тому +113

      Interestingly, his original name is Breakfast. It was a scribal note that added the “Religion for”. Later scribes just started putting them together by mistake. No one really knows why people started calling him “Andrew.”

    • @IcemanJuice
      @IcemanJuice Рік тому +5

      @@ReligionForBreakfast I always thought that was the name. Excited to see the true original.

  • @ItisMoody
    @ItisMoody Рік тому +568

    In Arabic, Jesus's name differs depending on whether it's the Christian or Muslim version: for Christians, his name is "Yassou^" with the "guttural Ayn sound" at the end (one of six Arabic throat based letters), and for Muslims his name is "^eessa" with the Ayn at the beginning of the name.
    Moreover, the prophet Yusha^ Ibn Noon is named like that in the Qur'an, as if they each had different names!

    • @RifqiPriyo
      @RifqiPriyo Рік тому +53

      It's عيسى /ʕiː.saː/ with long a and single s. The other one is يسوع /ja.suːʕ/ with long u and single s.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому +7

      عessa

    • @drgjs58727
      @drgjs58727 Рік тому +12

      Yes, with my Malayalam and Syriac heritage plus having been brought up in the Gulf, the variations were always fascinating and I just realised that the ع is at opposite ends for the two commonly seen Arabic forms of the name.

    • @jamieammar6131
      @jamieammar6131 Рік тому +19

      @@hm4084 He is not named in the Quran, not even in the hadith. Quranic commentators, or exegesis guys name him like that.

    • @alomaralsulaiman6501
      @alomaralsulaiman6501 Рік тому +28

      @@hm4084
      He is mentioned in the Quran as the follower of moses, but not by his name.

  • @NelehLove9313
    @NelehLove9313 Рік тому +195

    I am ashamed as a Christian believer that I did not know this... this changes so much for me. Thank you so much for educating us on this. I and many others truly appreciate it.

    • @pynjanaisyiemlieh1564
      @pynjanaisyiemlieh1564 Рік тому +20

      Dont be ashamed because faith is going directly under your heart not on the outer face many can fool you on the outer face but they cannot fool you deeply heart... he is there always with you.

    • @beastvader
      @beastvader Рік тому +35

      Never be ashamed for learning something new. As a devout Muslim, I too learn new things about my faith on a daily basis and it's a beautiful thing 🙂

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 Рік тому

      christian is a fake religion. thats why.

    • @gibsonpike8039
      @gibsonpike8039 Рік тому +2

      @Pynjanai Syiemlieh indeed beautifully said but who is everyone praying to then thats what i wanna know

    • @anthonywarren9885
      @anthonywarren9885 Рік тому +13

      It's kinda obvious seeing that Jesus is Latin. Not Hebrew. I'm sorry to tell you this but a VAST majority of the Christian bible is a mistranslation.

  • @youremakingprogress144
    @youremakingprogress144 Рік тому +3

    This could have been a dry subject, but you and Dr. Suchard did a great job at making it interesting as well as informative. Great work.

  • @AvoniasStratigis
    @AvoniasStratigis Рік тому +298

    Some perspective from a different side of the world:
    I live in Kerala, India. Where Christianity arrived fairly early, there are legends that St. Thomas himself had come to the shores of Kerala. The region was an important part of the spice trade hub (Black Pepper is originally from here) and had trade relations going back to antiquity with the near East. There were populations of Jews in Kerala during the time Christianity spread around here, either because of that (earliest converts being Jews who might have spoken a similar dialect) or because the earliest Christians having been converted by people who spoke such a dialect themselves, people usually say 'Yešu/Yēšu' here for Jesus. However the Syriac form also exists in the vernacular 'Išo' (and there are Syriac Churches here from later Syriac Christians arriving here). Archaic names like 'Yohannan' exist here. YHWH is pronounced 'Yahо̄va/Yehо̄va'. Christianity here followed quite a different trajectory from the West until the arrival of the Portugese (Vasco da Gama) and is worth studying on its own.
    PS: I haven't read any academic discussions on what might the Jews of Kerala before the advent of Christianity might have spoken (or whether they were even a homogenous group of their own). It is also quite likely that they might've adopted the regional language to some extent, having intermarried with the local population somewhat.

    • @maiyenish8552
      @maiyenish8552 Рік тому +2

      Rauzabal, meaning the Honored Tomb. It is known as the tomb of Yuz Asaf.

    • @caniblmolstr4503
      @caniblmolstr4503 Рік тому +20

      I am one of those Syrian Christians. So can attest to it.
      Thomas came to Kerala exactly because of the Spice trade. If you look at Jew history you would notice am interesting fact... The only place they lived peacefully without any issues from the locals was Kerala. So Kerala had a very sizable Jew population.
      So one might ask why doesn't it have that much now? Well most of these Jews just went to Israel. Malayalam is even now taught in their schools due to it

    • @AvoniasStratigis
      @AvoniasStratigis Рік тому +6

      @@caniblmolstr4503 Cochin Jews aren't that large diaspora wise, are they? I've heard that a lot of Jews initially might've converted to Christianity as well. And after a point in time, the people coming for trade became overwhelmingly Christian as opposed to any other faith. Although much of what I've read are 'books' on the topic, written by local historians but without references to solid papers.

    • @AvoniasStratigis
      @AvoniasStratigis Рік тому +2

      @@caniblmolstr4503 This is new to me. Cool! Where can I read more about the Swahilis and the Cholas?

    • @legendwarkingherowarkinglo7156
      @legendwarkingherowarkinglo7156 Рік тому

      @@caniblmolstr4503 are you vegetarians?

  • @celestialknight2339
    @celestialknight2339 Рік тому +470

    Great video! As a Muslim & Arabic speaker (sister language to Hebrew), it’s noteworthy to mention that the Qur’ān interestingly calls Jesus “‘Īsa” (with a guttural ‘Ayn at the BEGINNING-not end), contrary to what many modern Arab Christians today call Jesus, which is “Yesū’” with the hard ‘Y’ sound and guttural ‘A’ at the end (in alignment with the Hebrew ‘Yeshū’’.
    So the Qur’ān seems to be paralleling the Eastern Syriac pronunciation of “Isho” or “Isu” as mentioned in the video, but converting the Shīn (‘sh-‘) into an S-sound, while retaining a guttural Ayn, that it places at the beginning.
    Of course, as a Muslim, I am biased towards believing “Isho” or “Isu” to be the correct & original historical pronunciation by Jesus’s townsfolk. But I guess we’ll never know for exact sure, academically speaking.
    Also interestingly however, is that it’s been found by recent ancient Arabian inscriptions that the name “‘Īsa” (as the Qur’ān uses it) existed before Islam presumably for the name of Jesus, and which bore the meaning of “to purchase or redeem” (in apparent connection with the belief of Christ’s sacrificial atonement), but which also very well may have been a later meaning ascribed to the name by Christians as a result of their theology, rather than the other way around.
    I hope Andrew can make another video discussing the exact MEANING of the name “Jesus” (or Yeshu/Iso) in all of these different dialectical variations (of course “God saves” is a classic interpretation), and how that contributed if at all to people’s thoughts & views of Jesus in the early period.
    Either way, thanks for the dropping the knowledge!

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому +2

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @eskarinakatz7723
      @eskarinakatz7723 Рік тому +1

      The Shin can have a dot on one side or the other that changes it from an sh to an s. I’m not sure how recent a development that is, though.

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому +6

      @@eskarinakatz7723 It doesn't matter since Yeshua cannot be Jesus' name. The name has to interpret as "God With Us". Joshua/Yeshua does not translate as that. So not the name. A Greek alternative was used. Something like Zusa, using Zeus as the generic word for God.

    • @YFanoush
      @YFanoush Рік тому +31

      According to the Quran, the name variations of Jesus (pbuh) comes in two forms عيسى (Isa) with the sound Ain in the beginning and يسوع (Yasua) with the sound Ain at the end, and when connecting the idea of the name development in the region it seems to me that the name is derived from another name which is يوشع بن نون (Yausha Bin Noon) with the Ain at the end of the first name, the commander who lead the tribes to the holy land.

    • @jeffreyerwin3665
      @jeffreyerwin3665 Рік тому +9

      A recent issue of Biblical Archaeology Review had a article about the origin of "Isa" as the Muslim name for the Jewish rabbi, Yeshu ben Pantera.

  • @albronhana
    @albronhana 6 місяців тому +4

    Really enjoyed this video. Thank you!
    As an Assyrian born in America, I really enjoy getting to hear the different pronunciations

  • @slimsammyone
    @slimsammyone Рік тому +1

    I had a much less educated version of this conversation yesterday, but this did confirm what I understood. Thank you!

  • @drgjs58727
    @drgjs58727 Рік тому +260

    Fantastic video. In my native Malayalam, Jesus is called Yeshu and we have a vibrant Syriac community who say Eesho

    • @magnisky
      @magnisky Рік тому +14

      I can agree with that, my dad who is Bengali was born in December 25th, so his family nickname is Zeesu (pronounced very similar to Yeshu). I always thought it’s similar to “Jesus” but not. I come to find out now my dads nickname is closer to ancient pronunciation. Lol.

    • @johannesziaether3916
      @johannesziaether3916 Рік тому +13

      Interesting because Eesho is basically the same as his islamic name aka Eessa
      Usually "sh" from Hebrew or Aramaic becomes "s" in Arabic and "o" becomes "a"
      Christians usually call him Yaasuu in Arabic, which is basically Yeshua from Aramaic

    • @affinityxs
      @affinityxs Рік тому +10

      No way, I'm also a Malayali 😊. I'm also part of the Syriac community as well

    • @drgjs58727
      @drgjs58727 Рік тому +5

      @@affinityxs Namaskaaram fellow traveler!

    • @drgjs58727
      @drgjs58727 Рік тому +1

      @@magnisky wow, I'd love to know how the Z got in there 😁

  • @4473021
    @4473021 Рік тому +94

    Very interesting! I had always wondered why in mandarin, Jesus was pronounced like 耶穌 (Yēsū), now it all makes sense!

    • @praevasc4299
      @praevasc4299 Рік тому +10

      It's fascinating that the Chinese (where only a tiny percentage is Christian) pronounce the name of Jesus better than English speakers (where Christianity is the majority religion)

    • @tiagorodrigues3730
      @tiagorodrigues3730 Рік тому +20

      @@praevasc4299 This is because Jesus's name (as well as Peter's, John's and even Caesar's name) evolved along with the languages, while the Chinese borrowed the pronunciation from Latin /ˈjeː.suːs/ in the Sixteenth Century from the Jesuits who arrived with the Portuguese.

    • @lukelim5094
      @lukelim5094 Рік тому

      @@tiagorodrigues3730 it is so funny American butcher the original pronunciation of Jesus now then. All things considered. That is ironic.

    • @vincentyap3188
      @vincentyap3188 Рік тому

      @@praevasc4299 When jesus going to leave this world, he instructed his 12 students to spread his teaching and gospel to the whole world, at that time there is no plane, where Israel is nearer to the west, so the west should receive first, and follow by others, later

    • @Iskatel.Priklyucheniy
      @Iskatel.Priklyucheniy 8 місяців тому

      А зачем китайцам Иисус?😅

  • @michaelsuperstar606
    @michaelsuperstar606 Рік тому

    Awesome video, well done! Thanks for the work.

  • @bochini1
    @bochini1 Рік тому

    All your videos are great, thank you for creating one of the best channels on this platform.

  • @hantms
    @hantms Рік тому +129

    It's weird that even in Thailand they seem to pronounce it very close to what is presented here as original Aramaic; in Thai, Jesus is pronounced 'yay-su'. (su as 'soo', as in 'super') Typically with the 'phra' honorific that's also used for Buddhist monks and teachers: Phra Yesu.
    I'm now wondering if this is because of earlier exposure to Jesus' name by middle eastern contacts, or that it's just because in Thai you can't really have an S at the end of a word, or else it'll become a 't' sond which wouldn't sound nice so 19th century Western missionaries went with Yesu..

    • @nadheem420
      @nadheem420 Рік тому +5

      Thailand had contact with the early missionaries of Christianity the same way the west coast of india did(mainly just Keralas coast). The trade brought the early missionaries to se asia

    • @charliedoucette2249
      @charliedoucette2249 Рік тому +2

      Same in Korean. 예수 yesu

    • @janettedavis6627
      @janettedavis6627 Рік тому +4

      Similar to Latin. Jesu

    • @BlueNanoBox
      @BlueNanoBox Рік тому +2

      Similar to contemporary Mandarin Chinese!

    • @richielogosu7841
      @richielogosu7841 Рік тому +2

      @@janettedavis6627 in twi which is a language spoken in Ghana, it is Yesu

  • @fredriks5090
    @fredriks5090 Рік тому +41

    I find it pleasing that Jesus' name sounds like the greek "geia sou" meaning "hello there" or as a name,- "Greeter/Welcomer".
    Meaning Obi-Wan Kenobi is simply introducing himself as "Josh" and Lucasfilm knew of the priestly name meaning all along and was just teasing the story's christian undertones.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 Рік тому +3

      In English it sounds like: yea sure. So what’s your point?

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @iapetusmccool
      @iapetusmccool Рік тому +14

      @@termination9353 How about providing some evidence for that, rather than just copy/pasting the same assertions again and again.

    • @richarda.w.4562
      @richarda.w.4562 Рік тому

      Love it

    • @rachelgarber1423
      @rachelgarber1423 Рік тому

      @@iapetusmccool Exactly because people didn’t start using family or surnames until the 11th century

  • @smokeandmirrors6167
    @smokeandmirrors6167 Рік тому +3

    This was a fun ride, great research and source material and as a believer this information is super useful.

    • @omarlittle-hales8237
      @omarlittle-hales8237 3 місяці тому

      SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe.
      Quran [Last Testament]:
      The Likeness Of Jesus Son Of Mary, Is Akin To Birth, To That Of Adam.

  • @jf5177
    @jf5177 9 місяців тому +1

    Orthodox Jew here. Great video, and great info on the difference in pronunciation of the Aramaic compared to Hebrew, not many people know that. We see this a lot when we study Talmud. I would caution that Yeshu is mentioned on the Talmud, but we still don’t know if it’s referring to subject of the video specifically. Second Temple Judaism dealt with a of Sectarian heretics, so we do not know if “Yeshu” in the Talmud is referring to this specific Yeshu. Yeshu written in the Talmud is either יש׳ו or ישו, regardless the it is an acronym for ימח שמו וזכרו (Yimach Shemo V’Zikhro) or “May his name be blotted out from history”

  • @OmniphonProductions
    @OmniphonProductions Рік тому +50

    I love that the answer to a biblical question is best answered via the study of linguistic evolution. To see how much the pronunciation and writing of a name can change over such a short time opens up a veritable Pandora's Box of questions about how much the _stories_ changed from their original versions...as well as questions about which (if any) were even true.

    • @tiagorodrigues3730
      @tiagorodrigues3730 Рік тому +9

      I fail to understand how the pronunciation of a name is a “Biblical” question and even more how pronunciation leads to questioning the transmission of a *written* corpus, particularly for the one text which has undergone the most textual criticism of all, with three hundred years of collating early sources and variant readings to narrow down exactly how much corruption there has been.

    • @doh4828
      @doh4828 Рік тому +1

      You’d be amazed, especially with languages that are non-alphabetical.

    • @blackpalacemusic
      @blackpalacemusic 11 місяців тому

      Names change more than stories.

    • @OmniphonProductions
      @OmniphonProductions 11 місяців тому

      @@blackpalacemusic Fair point, but when the name changes from...say...Gilgamesh to Noah, losing the cultural and historical _root_ of the story in the process, it leaves open abundant opportunities to change the fine but _crucial_ details of the story to suit the needs and/or intentions of whoever is telling the story _this time._ Yeah?

  • @svetlanakholmetskaya6282
    @svetlanakholmetskaya6282 Рік тому +102

    Huh, what's interesting is that in Russian Joshua is consistently translated as Jesus ('Iesous'). Russian Synodal Bible uses "Jesus" to refer to both Joshua son of Nun and Joshua the High Priest, as well as Jesus himself. The Old Testament was translated from Hebrew but they did take the Septuagint into consideration so maybe that's why the name stayed consistent. Great video, I never realised that Joshua and Jesus were the same name.

    • @mikewilliams6025
      @mikewilliams6025 Рік тому +13

      Something Russian picked up from the Greek translator-missionaries who invented the Cyrillic alphabet and relied on the Septuagint.

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому +2

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @Copperkaiju
      @Copperkaiju Рік тому +10

      @@termination9353 Mios dios, please stop spamming.

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      @@Copperkaiju I'm not spamming - get your terms correct and F off.

    • @aboriginal1503
      @aboriginal1503 Рік тому

      it was fake anyway..Horus was his name when the Greeks ruled..Isis -Mary---Horus-->Jesus....4000 BC Greeks changed all the Africa religions...Serapis Christus 325 BC..

  • @m_d1905
    @m_d1905 Рік тому +1

    Nicely broken down. It's like in a language class when the teacher asks for your name I that language. I always used my middle name as my first name doesn't have a translation in most languages.

  • @georgesabay4734
    @georgesabay4734 Рік тому +1

    Thank this episode
    George Sabay
    Tacloban Philippines

  • @Breakfast__Burrito
    @Breakfast__Burrito Рік тому +40

    “Go pick up your copy of the Septuagint”
    Right lemme go grab that.

    • @shainazion4073
      @shainazion4073 Рік тому +2

      Many people have a copy of the Septuagint.

    • @sasshiro
      @sasshiro Рік тому +2

      @@shainazion4073 exactly, you can order one online if not available at your local bookstore.

    • @eskarinakatz7723
      @eskarinakatz7723 Рік тому

      @@shainazion4073 A partial copy, at least. Some denominations have different sets of texts that may exclude certain books.

    • @shainazion4073
      @shainazion4073 Рік тому +1

      @@eskarinakatz7723 The Septuagint is one book, the Tanakh that was translated to Greek. It was translated in the 3rd century BCE by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars, therefore named the Septuagint, or "the Seventy"

    • @eskarinakatz7723
      @eskarinakatz7723 Рік тому

      @@shainazion4073 Oh. Durp.

  • @therealtulip
    @therealtulip Рік тому +150

    As always, I love your thoroughness and the level of detail you go into in these videos. I’ve always wondered why in Modern Hebrew we say “Yeshu” (ישו) rather than what I thought was the authentic form of the name, Yeshua (ישוע).

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 Рік тому +2

      I've heard that this was a variation, and the it was a common name at the time (though I was never given evidenceof other "Yeshu"s).
      There's a folk etymology that "yeshu" is an acronym for a defamation, but it's never written as an acronym either...

    • @atbing2425
      @atbing2425 Рік тому +7

      The folk etymology is ישו, ימך שמו וזכרו
      (May his name be erased). But obviously it's simply a short ישוע. Like they said in the video the a at the end was added later so the pharyngeal ע was simply deleted in some biblical Hebrew dialects (just like modern Hebrew).

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 Рік тому +4

      @@atbing2425 I know the acronym, but as I said, if it were an acronym, we'd write the name as יש"ו which we don't...

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @v.p.stolat1217
      @v.p.stolat1217 Рік тому

      YA-HO-SHU-AH

  • @jaylee9552
    @jaylee9552 5 місяців тому +3

    The biggest take I get from this is, J isn't real and A at the end of a word is sneaky 😂

  • @mahdedarmo
    @mahdedarmo Рік тому +8

    love your work! I think it’s interesting how in Arabic the name “Jesus” is written “عيسى", beginning with the gutteral Ayin and ending with the Aleph.

  • @ntluck1592
    @ntluck1592 Рік тому +36

    Very similar to the Arabic pronunciation. We also have the "Ain" problem. Names like Ali begin with the Ain letter

    • @karezaalonso7110
      @karezaalonso7110 Рік тому

      Yes now. I wonder how Coptics and Ethiopian Christian Arabs say it.

    • @IbrahimAli-sx5lq
      @IbrahimAli-sx5lq 6 місяців тому +1

      @@karezaalonso7110I don't know about the Coptics but I can tell you about Ethiopians/Eritreans as I'm an Eritrean. Being the followers of the Oriental Orthodox Church and thus heavily influenced by the Greeks, they pronunce it as Yesus (የሱስ). In fact they say Yasus kristos (የሱስ ክርስቶስ) just like the Greeks . We (Eritreans) have the pharyngeal consonant ayn (ዕ) and other gutteral sounds though.

    • @karezaalonso7110
      @karezaalonso7110 6 місяців тому

      @@IbrahimAli-sx5lq very interesting, it would be great if you could upload an audio demonstration..ie using UA-cam.

  • @LikeTheProphet
    @LikeTheProphet Рік тому +43

    Linguistic nuance + Religion. Thanks I love it. ❤️

  • @GiR1854
    @GiR1854 5 місяців тому +2

    I'm an Indian. In the Indian language of Malayalam, Jesus is called YESHU.

  • @THATGuy5654
    @THATGuy5654 Рік тому +2

    "Idiot Galilean..."
    I was about to make a joke about how silly it seemed for someone to call someone an idiot for having an accent. Then I remembered the world I live in. ☹️

  • @Pingwn
    @Pingwn Рік тому +27

    Fun fact about furtive pataħ:
    Originally it was marked between the last letter and the letter before it, to indicate it is a vowel that is added between them (after the vowel which is marked under the previous consonant and before the last consonant) but because it was difficult to do so with typing machines it was marked under the last latter in print even though it is not supposed to be pronounced after the consonant unlike normal pataħ.

  • @rabyhanna1310
    @rabyhanna1310 Рік тому +16

    my native language is western syriac. we use yeshua with long vowels and guttural ayn when referring to jesus. although isho' (short vowels + guttural ayn) is a common name but it is not used to refer to jesus. also great video man!

  • @alejandrobravoh6613
    @alejandrobravoh6613 Рік тому

    Very interesting as all your videos. I would like to ask if you would be interested in doing a video on Simon Peter's actual name, since there are a few variations in the new testament: Simon/Symeon, bar Jonah/son of John, Peter/Cephas.

  • @vegitoblue7908
    @vegitoblue7908 Рік тому

    Great info.
    Thank you

  • @Kangaroo-Bob
    @Kangaroo-Bob Рік тому +35

    Andrew - do you want to learn how to say Jesus's real name
    Me - Yeah sure
    Andrew - Correct!

  • @user-dt6zl8ff7f
    @user-dt6zl8ff7f Рік тому +85

    I'm Chinese. We call Jesus “耶稣”(pinyin: Ye Su) in mandarin, so it is very close to the pronunciation of Jesus in Greek, Iesous.
    During Tang dynasty, we call Jesus“移鼠”(pinyin: Yi Shu), close to Ishu still.
    By the way, we call Grace “希腊”(pinyin: Xi La) in mandarin, also the same as Hellas in pronunciation in Greek itself.

    • @sarahwieland
      @sarahwieland Рік тому

      Not mainland China, correct?

    • @user-dt6zl8ff7f
      @user-dt6zl8ff7f Рік тому +5

      @@sarahwieland No, exactly in mainland China.

    • @sarahwieland
      @sarahwieland Рік тому

      @@user-dt6zl8ff7f Interesting, isn't I thought persecution was an issue in mainland China.

    • @user-dt6zl8ff7f
      @user-dt6zl8ff7f Рік тому +6

      @@sarahwieland Mainland China does lack a certain degree of religion freedom when compared to the west. But much more liberal than the Soviet used to be. All religions, as long as the Communist party allows, are tolerated and regulated autonomously, the administration doesn't really persecute as long as the religions and verious sects behave themselves under the communist rule.
      You may have noticed that recently several bishops in mainland China who used not to be consecrated by the Vatican have already been recognized by the Vatican and the Pope years before .

    • @ai6894
      @ai6894 Рік тому

      Is there a Chinese version of the Latin shorthand I.N.R.I. ?
      _Iesous Nazarenus Rexus Iudea_

  • @dsjgfhidupgjret
    @dsjgfhidupgjret 5 місяців тому

    This is one of the few videos I have downloaded to my phone. I love the introduction: “Brought to you by incogni: Jesus…”

  • @karenspivey3203
    @karenspivey3203 Рік тому

    Wonderful video. I heard about you from Dan McClennan.

  • @oldnewsglory
    @oldnewsglory Рік тому +26

    Thanks for being responsible with your sponsor and the way you constructed the ad portion. I actually watched the whole thing, resisting my strong urge to skip past lol Nicely done!

    • @bdwon
      @bdwon Рік тому

      Yes, his segue was smooth as silk.

    • @benjaminwatt2436
      @benjaminwatt2436 Рік тому

      i skipped ;)

    • @omarlittle-hales8237
      @omarlittle-hales8237 3 місяці тому

      SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe.
      Quran [Last Testament]:
      The Likeness Of Jesus Son Of Mary, Is Akin To Birth, To That Of Adam.

  • @amernamrood
    @amernamrood Рік тому +33

    I am an Aramaic speaker (mainly Chaldean Neo Aramaic) and we call Jesus ܝܫܘܥ (pronounced: Esh’o with that Ain sound at the end).
    And yes that’s how I would say Jesus actual name was pronounced or maybe close to that.

    • @annasaddiction5129
      @annasaddiction5129 Рік тому +1

      but how are you pronouncing the "Ain" sounds like Ian in english or without the a?

    • @FarawayStars
      @FarawayStars Рік тому

      @@annasaddiction5129 copy this Arabic letter and hear the pronunciation “ ع "

    • @S.R.M.
      @S.R.M. 11 місяців тому +2

      Romans 10:13 “For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Eminent historian Ernest Renan studied the life of Christ, and he acknowledged that the Savior was never in His life time known by or called by the name of “Jesus” (THE LIFE OF JESUS, p. 90). The name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. In the 1611 English Version of the Bible (KJV), the name of Christ is Iesus (pronounced “ee-sus”), and only later was it changed to Jesus (pronounced “gee-sus”). The revealed name is very important to our salvation in Christ. The idea of taking God’s name in vain, which means to bring His Name to uselessness, or changing His name, or taking a vow by His name and not fulfilling that vow, so this is what is meant by “taking His name in vain” (Exodus 20:2). We must acknowledge that the name of salvation cannot be changed, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). You cannot change the revealed name of our Savior, and there is no excuse acceptable to God for doing so, even if one speaks in another tongue, or rather because of the languages, of mankind. You must take this very seriously, for the warning of God is clear: “‘If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name {YAH},’ Says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart” (Malachi 2:2). Although there are descriptive names, there is only one Personal name of God by which to give glory to the LORD, as we say, “Halleluyah,” which is, “Praise YAH!” Knowing God’s revealed name is very important for this is the only name of salvation. The Bible tells us the name of salvation, “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV). Therefore, we must “Praise YAH,” as many may be unknowingly doing when they say, “Halleluyah!” “Praise YAH!” These other names produced by man via linguistic evolution are lacking a, “Thus says the LORD!” These man-made names, which are a product of languages, and not the revelation of God, such as Jesus, Iesus, and Iesous, and not to mention “Hey-zeus, are not valid. ~So where did we get the true name of God, the very name “YAH”? Moses asked God for His name, and God replied, “HAYAH Ashar HAYAH,” which means: “I AM Who I AM,” therefore, Moses was told the essential name of God is YAH, I AM (HAYAH, the I AM), for God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” (Exodus 3:14). People say, “Oh, the Lord has many names.” No, the Lord has only One Personal essential name, which always has “YAH.” “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: ‘I, the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name YAHAWAH, I was not known to them’” (Exodus 6:2-3). Therefore, the name YAH is the essential and the consistently true name of God. For this name YAH is the name which is above every name! The apostle Paul originally wrote this about the Savior’s name, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Messiah is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).
      Here are the facts: The Savior told them that He was the I AM, as in “YAH” (John 8:58), and more facts:
      1. Moses was given the name which is above every name [YAH]. (see Exodus 3:14)
      2. The apostle Paul testifies that Christ has the name which is above every name [YAH]. (see Philippians 2:9)
      3. The Lord YAH made it clear to Moses that although He, God, was known by many descriptive names, for example, El Shaddai, Emmanuel, Lord, Savior, Messiah, He only has One Personal Essential Name: YAH.
      4. The apostle Peter states: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
      5. The apostle Paul heard the Savior give His name in Hebrew on the road to Damascus (Acts 26:15). We know that the Savior did not say, “Jesus,” because:
      • The name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century c.e. (1611 English Bible: “Iesus.”) Contrarily to what many say, the name Jesus does not mean salvation.
      • The name Jesus is not a Hebrew name.
      • The name Jesus came from many linguistic changes: Iesus (ee-sus), Iesous (ee-ay-sous), a transliteration of Yeshua, which is a common Aramaic name at the time of Christ.
      • The Lord has revealed His name only in Hebrew (Exodus 3:14; Isaiah 12:2; Act 26:14-15). Behold the One revealed Name by which we must be saved: YAHSHUA! And every tongue, language of mankind, is to know this one name YAHSHUA (Philippians 2:11).
      And this is the essence of the Gospel: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18).
      Logically, if there are many names for Christ, then to accept one among the many would be tantamount to rejecting the rest. Therefore, there can only be one revealed name given according to one language, as it is, and should be in Hebrew. Otherwise, how can we be sure that we are not rejecting the Lord’s revealed name from Heaven?

  • @zaippiaz
    @zaippiaz Рік тому

    You make religion so digestible. Thank you

  • @mousermind
    @mousermind Рік тому +1

    I love how there were ancient pedants such as myself, correcting the grammar of others in similarly snarky and arrogant ways.

  • @toncinho
    @toncinho Рік тому +18

    This video was wonderful! And it's wonderful to see such a linguistic study, nicely done!

  • @callmefienix4865
    @callmefienix4865 Рік тому +15

    This is the 3rd video of yours I've checked out and I have to say I am wildly impressed bro. The depth of your research and the knowledge you impart is amazing on so many levels. Can't wait to hear more!

    • @mchevre
      @mchevre Рік тому +3

      lol it's because he literally has a PhD in this stuff.

  • @marcelogoncalvesdocouto7288

    In portuguese, Jesus is spelled just like in english, but the pronounce changes: the J is pronounced like it is in french and we put the intonation at the last syllable (like in spanish). However Joshua is totally different: Josué (the é is an open vowel, sounds something like ae).

  • @glaubersouza6442
    @glaubersouza6442 Рік тому

    Fantastic video!

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- Рік тому +12

    Researcher: "Am I pronouncing it right: 'ye+shoo+ah?'"
    Expert: "Yea, sure, close enough."

    • @bobkerolls13
      @bobkerolls13 Рік тому +3

      They could redo that scene in Super Troopers. "Are you saying 'Yes, sir', or 'Yeah, sure'...or one of the proposed original vocalizations of the true name of the historical Jesus?"

  • @protoeuro
    @protoeuro Рік тому +17

    Despite being an Arabic expert rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic expert, I still knew exactly where you were heading... those guttural sounds never fail to perplex and enthrall learners of Semitic languages haha

    • @ThatBernie
      @ThatBernie Рік тому +4

      إنها فعلا من أصعب الأصوات الموجودة في اللغات السامية حيث أنها نادرة في أغلبية اللغات الأخرى (ما عدا عدة لغات أفرو-آسيوية العائلة الكبيرة التي تتضمن العائلة السامية، فضلا عن وجود هذه الأصوات في بعض لغات منطقة القوقاز وعدة لغات السكان الأصليين في شمال غرب أمريكا الشمالية)
      تعديل: نسيت ذكر أنها أيضا تلاشت حتى في بعض اللغات السامية الحديثة كالعبرية المعاصرة والمالطية وبعض اللهجات الآرامية المعاصرة المنثورة في شمال العراق وجنوب شرق تركيا. والأدهى أن بعض الناطقين بهذه اللغات ليس لديهم دراية أن هذه الأصوات كانت موجودة في لغاتهم في الماضي وباتوا يتخيلون أن حرفَي الألف والعين مثلا كان لهما نفس النطق حتى في قديم الزمان وهذا أبعد ما يمكن أن يكون عن الحقيقة!

    • @protoeuro
      @protoeuro Рік тому

      @@ThatBernie هل درست اللسانيات؟ لأنه نادرا ما تعرف الناس هذه الكمية من المعلومات عن العائلات اللغوية (اما انا درستها في الجامعة)

    • @ThatBernie
      @ThatBernie Рік тому +1

      @@protoeuro نعم حاصل على شهادة ماجستير في اللغويات

  • @areyeh4979
    @areyeh4979 10 місяців тому

    Great information!

  • @nrneves
    @nrneves 9 місяців тому +1

    As a brazillian, I highlight the connection between the name "Ishu"/"Yeshu" and the Candomblé's divine entity, "Exu"/"Èsù". Both Jesus and Exu are related to pathways, with bible describing Jesus as the "pathway, truth and life", and Exu being referred as the guardian of pathways and crossroads.

  • @islandplace7235
    @islandplace7235 Рік тому +5

    Just getting off work, saw this, immediately clicked, always a pleasure seeing new content.

  • @jkoperski9925
    @jkoperski9925 Рік тому +8

    I appreciate you putting the bibliography in your video description. Thanks.

  • @risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302

    As someone who talks, it was cool to see you talking in this video.

  • @PHASES_STUDIO
    @PHASES_STUDIO Рік тому +1

    I love this entire video thanks so much for it

  • @GoodMorningButch
    @GoodMorningButch Рік тому +25

    Your channel is so unbelievably interesting! Every single video I’m watching and learning tons I never would have thought to research.

    • @AB-et6nj
      @AB-et6nj Рік тому

      Crazy what scholars and scientists know and discover. So don't settle for common sense popular beliefs

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      @@AB-et6nj Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @omarlittle-hales8237
      @omarlittle-hales8237 3 місяці тому

      SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe.
      Jesus's Son Of Mary's, Real Name:
      Arabic it's عِيسَى (Isa) and Aramaic is īšōʕ (Isho) I speak both languages.

  • @carinaaugust643
    @carinaaugust643 Рік тому +6

    This was so cool to watch! In Armenian Jesus Christ is Հիսուս Քրիստոս
    (“Hisus Kristos”) pronounced as HEE-SUS. I remember going to my first RE (Religious Eduction) class in England when I was 11 and being surprised at the teacher for saying “Jesus”.

  • @mrmoshesh
    @mrmoshesh Рік тому

    Just watching this now. Your production team has a writer Andrew and an editor Mark 😂 Nice!

  • @zenosAnalytic
    @zenosAnalytic Рік тому

    I already knew the Josh/Yeshua bit & how the s snuck in there, but I hadn't heard about the difficulty with the ayin! Gotta say I get a bit of a kick out of how close to "yeah sure" Yeshua' sounds XD XD

  • @NickvonZ
    @NickvonZ Рік тому +19

    I have thought Yeshua ben Joseph. (Yeshua, son of Joseph). Not my religion, I am Buddhist, but I am a bit of a Comparative Religions scholar. Why I LOVE your channel!
    When I was a kid, in church (former christian), the preacher made a really funny little joke.
    He asked the congregation: "What is god's first name?"
    When no one could answer, he said, "Andy."
    We were all like, "Andy?!?!"
    The preacher said, "Yes! In the bible it says, 'Andy (And he) gave his only begotten son."
    I think that was a pretty funny little quip from the Pastor!

    • @luciannawolfstone2598
      @luciannawolfstone2598 Рік тому +2

      Yeshua BAR Yosef

    • @NickvonZ
      @NickvonZ Рік тому +4

      @@luciannawolfstone2598 Well, Hebrew isn't my first language, but a simple Google will bring up BEN. I bothered to double check, since you replied.
      Ben is Hebrew for "son", BAR is Aramaic.
      6 in one, half a doz in the other.

    • @J_Rees
      @J_Rees Рік тому +6

      @@NickvonZ Aramaic was most likely the first language of Jesus and Joseph.

    • @NickvonZ
      @NickvonZ Рік тому

      @@J_Rees I know.

  • @Alexis-gx7eu
    @Alexis-gx7eu Рік тому +24

    It's always much fun to come into these videos thinking I've got a pretty good grasp on the topic, only to realize how little I know and that there's still so much to learn and understand. Thank you for all your exhaustive work on these videos, they're a joy to watch!

  • @batteleyyachtlife9957
    @batteleyyachtlife9957 Рік тому +1

    You need a million views!

  • @edselljr
    @edselljr Рік тому

    You Kids please keep climbing on the historical facts of words that were thrown to us.
    I love this and I will keep climbing on my thought on what really happened.
    Yous are a true example of the search of Those Truths

  • @grantsmythe8625
    @grantsmythe8625 Рік тому +18

    What an amazing amount of research and preparation went into this 16 minute video! Very impressive.

  • @kyrab7914
    @kyrab7914 Рік тому +14

    We were always taught that his name in that time would've been Joshua/Yeshua. It's fascinating that you go way way more into why that may have been. And equally as fascinating that Jesus' name would survive and be revived to be passed down in my Catholic school education.

    • @Ugly_German_Truths
      @Ugly_German_Truths Рік тому +1

      it is possible that that idea simply stemmed from a time with way less linguistical research into the languages of the time than we have today. The papers he showed demonstrate that linguists still work on unravelling the lost knowledge about how such things were pronounced, mostly based on transkription (that is how different things were spelled when different language writers had to represent them) and it is possible that the ones bringing the "old knowledge" around just didn't know better.
      Just like a lot of textual knowledge did not exist before the discovery of the dead sea scrolls that revealed a lot previously unknown texts and text variants. ;)

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Рік тому

      @No sht Sherlock I know this is a joke, but we were always taught he was a Jew at that time. He couldn't very well be Catholic or Christian

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Рік тому

      @@Ugly_German_Truths oh yeah, most assuredly my teachers probably learned about this from some of the same papers he did. And as assured, there's been research since. And I mean... It was k-8, this is a bit of a higher level explanation lol. Just marveling and grateful for the knowledge

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      - Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

    • @pdub69triniboy
      @pdub69triniboy Рік тому

      @@termination9353 You a real clown

  • @beneehayah4401
    @beneehayah4401 Рік тому

    Nehemia and Ezra offer different spellings on several words. These spellings only exist in their work.
    Nehemia and Ezra are post-Babylon, the difference is relational to their separation and return, possibly from memory as opposed to a physical copy.
    Ihsous the Greek form
    This is not the only way the name is spelled. There are muliple spellings.
    The Seleucid Empire required their subjects to write their language using Greek. Using the phonemes of Greek to represent Hebrew pronunciation preserved Hebrew texts by writing them with Greek.
    Iota, in Greek is pronounced EE
    Sigma can represent Shin or Samech
    OU, Omicron Upsilon, a conjunction pronounced OWE like low, tow, or show. This structure represents the Ayin.
    This tells us the Hebrew spelling and its 4bce-4ce pronunciation.
    EE-Show - Salvation
    I chose the simple form of all variant spellings because Heta is a silent letter in Greek. It is possible in a letter exchange system the Heta replaces the Hey. Because I did this work based on the phonetic system, I ignored the Heta in the Hebrew spelling.

  • @joshg6792
    @joshg6792 Рік тому

    Thank you for this information 👍

  • @qwitchyy
    @qwitchyy Рік тому +27

    I have kind of a silly question about the creation of the letter “J.” Was it just understood that written context would determine a word’s pronunciation? I don’t imagine anyone would see “Iames” and think it was anything other than “James,” but I could imagine it causing more confusion with common words. Especially if there wasn’t a lowercase “j” yet either.
    This is practically the opposite circumstance, but I’m reminded how in the Puerto Rican dialect of Spanish, words ending in the letter “S” lose that letter’s sound. So “gracias” just sounds like “gracia.” It’s just understood and implied. It’s something I’m still having to actively remember when speaking to my partner’s family. I know this wasn’t the focus of the video - my apologies.
    I’m an anthropologist specializing in Ancient Celtic culture, but my thesis had a linguistic focus. I really wish I’d kept with it because this video had me completely enraptured, and generally I have a fascination with etymology - specifically the etymology of given names.

    • @mollof7893
      @mollof7893 Рік тому +2

      The letter "i" and "j" originaly made a near identical sound so there wasn't really a neef to diffrienciate it. Sound change made them more diffrent to each other so having diffrent letters was more important.

    • @WillGaylord
      @WillGaylord Рік тому +1

      The letter 'j' was developed in the 16th century to represent the sound better. Prior to it's popularization, 'i' was the closest natural phonological equivalent sound for Latin speaking people of the 'y' sound in Hebrew; so, for a name like 'iames', they wouldn't have pronounced with with the 'j' sound.

    • @varana
      @varana Рік тому +2

      Yes, the pronunciation would just depend on the position (and the specific word in question, which you might just have to know).
      In Latin, where the alphabet comes from, we have the same thing: the letter i would be pronounced differently depending on position and environment. It basically works like the letter Y in Spanish: yo and y are pronounced in two versions, similar to Latin i. I'm not sure which variants of Spanish do or don't do this, but I've heard people pronouncing "yo" or "Yolanda" etc. with a sound that was similar (though a bit weaker) to the English J.

    • @qwitchyy
      @qwitchyy Рік тому

      Thank you all so much! You’ve given me new avenues leading to unexplored (for me at least) rabbit holes.

    • @pansepot1490
      @pansepot1490 Рік тому +1

      The spelling of English throughout the centuries has been wild. If I remember correctly there was no standard spelling of English words in the seventeenth century, in fact Shakespeare’s manuscripts show that often he spelled the same word in different ways. Furthermore words that haven’t changed their spelling now have a different pronunciation. We know that because Shakespeare used rhymes so when a rhyme it’s expected and it doesn’t really work it’s because the word had a different pronunciation. Hope it’s clear. In conclusion I am not even sure how James was pronounced in earlier centuries but I am willing to bet it was not like today’s and the letter j was adopted to reflect the difference between i and j that usage had produced.
      Btw I am not a linguist, just listened to videos about the topic because of personal interest. The field is huge but to give you an idea (in case you don’t already know) you can look up “the great vowel shift”. It’s about the dramatic transformation English language went through between the 1400s and 1700s.

  • @devinmccrorey4911
    @devinmccrorey4911 Рік тому +262

    This was a really good episode. I always wondered how to properly pronounce the name of Jesus in the original language. Can you do an episode on the pronunciation of YHWH?

    • @t.j.9226
      @t.j.9226 Рік тому +57

      With some historical context at the beginning of why it was often *not* pronounced in Jewish traditions! ;)

    • @lakrids-pibe
      @lakrids-pibe Рік тому +60

      I follow Larry Gonick's example and pronounce YHWH as "Yahoo Wahoo".

    • @Salsmachev
      @Salsmachev Рік тому +25

      It would be difficult to do without being potentially very disrespectful.

    • @Gumper30
      @Gumper30 Рік тому +59

      @@Salsmachev it's definitely a sensitive topic but religious studies allows for discussion of taboo information as long as the scholar isn't making a judgement on the value of the theological content.

    • @MattBellzminion
      @MattBellzminion Рік тому +39

      @@Gumper30 Not just YHWH's pronunciation, but that deity's origins. I've read that YHWH was a pagan tribal god worshipped by the Israelites' Canaanite neighbors, and became incorporated into the Jews' concept of God over several centuries, shedding his deity family (wife and kids) and his original godly powers (as the god of war and storms). You want controversy? Try explaining to Mosaic monotheists that they've been worshipping a partly pagan god all along.

  • @DISTurbedwaffle918
    @DISTurbedwaffle918 Рік тому

    Interestingly, the way Latin renders the Name, Iesus (Yeh-soos) or Iezus (Yeh-zoos), is in the 4th Declension instead of the 2nd Declension; the result is that the cases use more long or reiterated U (pronounced 'oo') sounds, which could be how the Romans interpreted the gutteral sound of Hebrew (considering that St Jerome knew Hebrew and Aramaic himself, I wouldn't be surprised); this is in contrast to the 2nd Declension, in which the cases take forms with i and o.
    Example:
    Jezus in the Genitive looks like Jezūs, indicating a more drawn out sound.
    If it were 2nd Dec, it would be Jezī.
    So clearly there was some aspect of the Name that Romans felt necessitated the 4th Declension.

  • @dynamic9016
    @dynamic9016 Рік тому

    Very informative.

  • @lauriemikhael9920
    @lauriemikhael9920 Рік тому +5

    Interesting, I just gave a lesson on this topic yesterday and agree with everything that you have said. Nice! Thank you.

  • @ages6592
    @ages6592 Рік тому +9

    In Swedish it’s common for older text to write “Jesu” without the s! For instance you could say “Jesu Kristi” and it would be interpreted by a majority as an older, more formal way of saying “Jesus Kristus” which is Jesus Christ in modern Swedish.
    Funny who this could be close to the actual name, since Scandinavia was Christened very late. Full circle by chance!

    • @chegu613
      @chegu613 Рік тому +2

      jesu christi is also an older/more formal version in German

    • @stephanpopp6210
      @stephanpopp6210 Рік тому

      @@chegu613 In genitive, i.e. Jesus Christ's so-and-so. It's a Latin genitive and totally weird from a German perspective, where genitives are in -s and written language only.

    • @carlosbardales4179
      @carlosbardales4179 Рік тому

      Interesting... Jesus Christ in Spanish is Jesucristo !

    • @davidbouvier8895
      @davidbouvier8895 Рік тому

      As the narrator points out, the final 's' of the Greek 'iesous' is added to grammatically indicate the nominative. But addressing him directly (in Latin certainly, I've long forgotten all my Greek) would require the vocative. So does the older English usage 'Jesu' come from Jerome's Latin Vulgate?

  • @tzipporahibrimPsalm40
    @tzipporahibrimPsalm40 Рік тому

    thanksk! this was really interesting! a quick question for you: do you know what is the name of the babylonian tradition to only mention their deities' names during certain ceremonies or seasons of the year? i learned that the hebrews adopted that tradition during the exhile and continued it even after they returned from babylon, and that might have played a part in why they removed the Most High's Name, and replaced it with the tetragrammaton. Can you tell me the name of that babylonian tradition?

  • @kerimkurkcu7237
    @kerimkurkcu7237 Рік тому +2

    In Turkish, we sound it as "İsa", so similar to 'yesu'. Thank you for the knowledge !

  • @batminton7467
    @batminton7467 Рік тому +18

    I like how his guy tries to shed light on all the possibilities he knows or has researched. Keep up the good work.

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

  • @Violet70725
    @Violet70725 Рік тому +33

    In Indonesia, mostly call him Yesus. There are so many tribes here and we call him in different name as well, especially when singing using tribe language. My parents are batak toba so they call him Jesus and Kristus. For God, it is written on mom's bibble for batak as Jahoba and Debata.
    But, we go to church were majority is Dayak and they call him Yesus. Some of my friend at school who are Toraja call him Yesu. The other one call him Isa and he is from Aceh.
    When I sing christian song, then I will call him Jesus. But, it is still the same.

  • @rodrickgriffin7599
    @rodrickgriffin7599 Рік тому +1

    He would not be confused at all. Just as knew the woman who was sick touched the hem of his garment. Jesus transcends such simple things.

  • @MegaBIGJOE64
    @MegaBIGJOE64 Рік тому +1

    Jesus is not just the translation in English but in French too.

  • @sollymakgolane4641
    @sollymakgolane4641 Рік тому +39

    This is one of the few channels I actually wait in anticipation for the next post. Thank you for making religion simple and understandable, for removing the dogma and explaining it from a historical and sober perspective. What I like about this channel is that Andrew is for the layman; this is not only for academics, it is for everyone. Keep up the good work. And please if you can... I always hold my fingers hoping that one day you'll make a video about Rastafari Movement. I want to hear your take. Again, thank you doc.

  • @duckpotat9818
    @duckpotat9818 Рік тому +70

    Interestingly, Jesus is called Yaeshu or Yashu in Indian languages.
    Christianity arrived in India pretty early and It's possible the pronounciation remained largely unchanged since it remained a small largely localised religion.
    I'd like to know the Ethiopian pronounciation since it's another non westerm early Christian country

    • @chendaforest
      @chendaforest Рік тому +1

      Yes and some Christians use Allah for God interestingly...

    • @varana
      @varana Рік тому +29

      @@chendaforest Because Allah is just the Arabic word for "god". It's not an individual name per se, it's just been closely associated with Islam because the Quran uses it.

    • @chendaforest
      @chendaforest Рік тому

      @@varana I see. So what do Christians call God by hallowed name ? Is it Jesus or something else ?

    • @pansepot1490
      @pansepot1490 Рік тому +8

      @@chendaforest according to the English translation of the Bible the name of god is Yahweh.

    • @varana
      @varana Рік тому +13

      @@chendaforest It's a bit complicated, but generally speaking, Christians just say "god" in their native language. In English, "God", in French, "Dieu", in Russian, "Bog", in Arabic, "Allah", and so on. Or they use other honorifics - "the Lord" is very commonly used. (Again, whatever "lord" is in each language.)
      In both Judaism and Christianity, God theoretically has a name, but it is rarely used - in Judaism, it's only used in the written form (YHWH, with no vowels because Hebrew), and never spoken. In Christianity, these four letters are sometimes pronounced in different ways (Yahweh, Jehovah, or similar), but essentially, we're not exactly sure what the vowels were. But again, that is not often used.
      Jesus is considered one of the parts of God in Christianity (as said - it's complicated).

  • @AbuRashidIbrahim
    @AbuRashidIbrahim Рік тому

    Even more interesting is the fact this name is actually based on a Semitic root that was w-ṯ-ʿ originally (i.e. ayin is the only original phoneme still existing in the Hebrew rendition, and even that is dropped in pronunciation today). So the name may originally have been pronounced as something like yaθuʕ, based on the existence of the same name in the Amorite onomasticon. Of course that's long before the time of the famous Galilean, but feasible for the time of the son of Nun.

  • @pikachen
    @pikachen Рік тому +1

    You have such an amazing and large channel. Please put captions that are better than auto-generated. Especially with videos like this. Thanks for the consideration.

  • @Keonny77
    @Keonny77 Рік тому +3

    I love this channel...i always learn something new. I consider myself to be pretty well versed in these topics so I'm very impressed when someone can tell me something that I don't already know... (not to be arrogant)....but the reason I love this channel so much is that not only do I learn new things... I learn that what I once thought was correct may not be and why it WAS thought to be correct and may no longer be accepted fully factually correct....

    • @termination9353
      @termination9353 Рік тому

      Jesus real name was Zusa Justus [his father being Joseph Barsabas Justus of Arimathea]. - 'Zusa' being the Greek or Hellenized equivalent of Emmanuel/God With Us/'God[Zeus] of gods with us' as the angel told Joseph to name the child (Zusa - Zusas - Jesus).
      Jesus' surname, Justus (Justice, Righteous, Tzadik) is the Davidic royal bloodline surname given to King David's dynasty.
      "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name [IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE] there I am in the midst of them." -Jesus

  • @wompa70
    @wompa70 Рік тому +4

    I enjoy these language related videos. It's a good reminder of how varied language is.

  • @bretfisher7286
    @bretfisher7286 Місяць тому

    Gosh. This is fascinating. Thank you.

  • @benjaminstamper5047
    @benjaminstamper5047 Рік тому

    Just out of curiosity, have you done any videos on early gnostic Christianity? Also, have you read the book a history of God, explaining where Judaism pulls from Babylonian religious texts? If not, you would be interested in it for sure! Solid videos, subscribed!

    • @theloner6063
      @theloner6063 Рік тому

      Read The Lost Book of Enki

    • @jlaurelle
      @jlaurelle Рік тому

      Earliest Christianity came from followers of The Way and were called Natsarim. Many of the beliefs of modern-day Christianity were not taken from the Tanak (Old Testament) or Yeshua/Yahusha/Yahusha/Yahushua but from paganism that infiltrated the Faith, particularly when the Roman Catholic Church took over the faith and forbade practicing Christians from reading their Bibles and started preaching a different gospel and also from all the converts coming in with their paganism. For example, the trinity and oneness doctrines cannot be found in Scripture but Christians are often taught these doctrines because they learned them at their Jesuit owned seminaries and Bible colleges. This goes for many other things such as Christmas and Easter which have nothing to do with our Messiah and everything to do with a Babylon, Tammuz, and Ishtar. Likewise, modern-day Judaism also has very little to do with the Tanak because men decided their own laws and traditions superseded the Laws of the Creator and this is why our Messiah reprimanded them constantly.

  • @xolang
    @xolang Рік тому +4

    Thank you!
    Some Jewish communities pronounced ע as a ng-sound, as in the word "siNGer". in IPA: ⁠ŋ .
    That's the sound that I still use today to pronounce ע which helps to distinguish it from א .
    Thus a possible pronunciation of ישוע would also be «yešung» or «yešuªng» .

  • @lew8176
    @lew8176 Рік тому +11

    excellent video, as always! i wanted to ask you - is it possible to include captions (not auto-generated ones because they're often times not great) in your videos? i have auditory processing disorder and even though you talk very clearly, i have to rewatch some parts. i always watch videos with captions if they're avaiable. it would make videos accesible for deaf people and people who learn english. thanks in advance!

  • @kresil.
    @kresil. 13 днів тому

    In Arab countries and Pakistan, he is commonly referred to as Isa (Arabic ʕiːsaː, Urdu ʔiːsaː) by the Muslims, but by the Christians he is reffered as Yasu (Arabic jasuːʕ Urdu jasuː) or Yasu al-Masih (Arabic jasuːʕal masiːħ Urdu jasuːal masiːh), I've heard that the reason for this is that he Arabs always called him Isa, but the people living outside the Arabian peninsula who didn't speak Arabic called him Yasu or Yeshu, but when Islam spread and Arabic became the dominant language, the people who converted to Islam had no problem changing his name to Isa, but the Christians didn't, and they kept it as Yasu, since Urdu is heavily influenced by Arabic, I suppose that this also spread to Pakistan.

  • @Sephiroth144
    @Sephiroth144 Рік тому

    Brian, of course.

  • @tmalonso
    @tmalonso Рік тому +7

    I’ve read a lot of claims, some attributed to Hebrew scholars, which seem to think it was ‘Yahushua’ where “Yahu” is pronounced quickly as though the two syllables were rolled into one, making it sound like “Yow” followed by an emphasized “Shoo” and finishing with a less emphasized “uh”…yowSHOOuh also is an abbreviated reference to a longer phrase which translates into “The Creator saves”

  • @christopherwilliams7905
    @christopherwilliams7905 Рік тому +20

    This is what I want. I'm a Christian and I absolutely loved this. You didn't mock my beliefs you didn't say anything to make anyone believer or not upset. Just a great informative story. Very very interesting

    • @druidriley3163
      @druidriley3163 Рік тому

      Interestingly, critics of Christianity use this fact that Jesus was created as a fictional character to be a mirror character of the Hebrew bible hero Joshua by giving him the same name.

    • @trianjezraellumontad7661
      @trianjezraellumontad7661 Рік тому +2

      @@druidriley3163 excuse me ,I'm a Critic towards Christianity, do you want me to Explained why we think Jesus is a Fictional character?

    • @druidriley3163
      @druidriley3163 Рік тому

      @@trianjezraellumontad7661 -- *Explained why we think Jesus is a Fictional character* Because he has all the hallmarks of one? No history, his birth is either omitted or not consistent in the telling, his family lineage is also inconsistent, he starts off as an infant in only two stories, born like all Greek demigods, then immediately jumps forward 30+ years? Meaning, there's no need to discuss his life, just him as messenger? And there is no contemporary evidence for him? Nothing is written about him until decades and centuries after his supposed existence? Sounds pretty fictional to me.

    • @nbk2134
      @nbk2134 9 місяців тому

      ​@@trianjezraellumontad7661did your great grand father exist?

  • @jamesboswellii2034
    @jamesboswellii2034 Рік тому

    Well done!

  • @JesusChrist-je2zo
    @JesusChrist-je2zo 7 місяців тому +2

    I called myself John. I almost always do. As tales of the resurrection spread, the name was confused with the Hebrew ''Yochanan,''. Meaning ''God is gracious''. My stay on Earth was seen as divine proof of immortality. That led to ''God is salvation''. or Hebrew ''Yahshua'', which in translation became my proper name, changing to late Greek, ''Iesous''. Then to late Latin, ''Iesus''. Finally medieval latin, ''Jesus''. And it was a wonder to watch it all happen.

    • @JesusChrist-je2zo
      @JesusChrist-je2zo 7 місяців тому

      anyone who knows the reference gets a gold star.

    • @Solestian
      @Solestian 7 місяців тому

      The Man From Earth

  • @megaanderson97
    @megaanderson97 Рік тому +3

    Great topic I always wondered about this. Great research based evidence

  • @laurenthomas7074
    @laurenthomas7074 Рік тому +14

    As an anecdote, modern arabic still uses the 3yn (guttural end sound I'll write as '3') in both of the two versions it has of Jesus's name. While the Muslim version is 3eesa (عيسى) (taken from other local languages I suppose) the form used in arabic by christains is the much more interesting yasoo3, which reminds me of the proposed yeshoo3 original pronunciation

  • @Spirit1443
    @Spirit1443 Рік тому +1

    Holy Spirit pronounced Jesus real name as his mother spoke it as "Ishu" this is the sound I heard in the trance I fell into. Ever since I have searched and found that in Galilee they didn't pronounce the a at the end of Yeshuah. Making it Yeshu. Pronounced Ishu