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Jesus (/ ˈ dʒ iː z ə s /) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע). [1] [2] As its roots lie in the name Isho in Aramaic and Yeshua in Hebrew, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua.
The fact remains, according to the authoritive scholars Liddell and Scott, that Iesous is a Greek name, meaning healer, straight from ancient Greek Mythology. This belongs in Wikipedia's article on Jesus in the first paragraph where the origin of the name Jesus is presented.
Iaso (/ ˈ aɪ. ə s oʊ /; Greek: Ἰασώ, Iasō) or Ieso (/ aɪ ˈ iː s oʊ /; Greek: Ἰησώ, Iēsō) was the Greek goddess of recuperation from illness. The daughter of Asclepius, she had four sisters: Aceso, Aegle, Hygieia, and Panacea. All five were associated with some aspect of health or healing.
"Yeshua" ישוע , a Hebrew name written with the letters yod-shin-vav-`ayin of the Hebrew alphabet.. Yeshua (Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ, romanized: Yēšūaʿ ) was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Yəhōšūaʿ, 'Joshua') in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among jewish people of the Second Temple period.
A common Greek name was Iesous in ancient times - it is not Hebrew at all - it was just a nearest sound-alike to the Aramaic word Joshua. The definition of Etymology is the study of word origins and their changing usage in time. - Iesous first appears in Greek Mythology as a derivative of Iaso the healer. 72.186.213.96 03:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
In Eastern Christianity, the most widely used Christogram is a four-letter abbreviation, ΙϹ ΧϹ—a traditional abbreviation of the Greek words for 'Jesus Christ' (i.e., the first and last letters of each of the words ΙΗϹΟΥϹ ΧΡΙϹΤΟϹ, with the lunate sigma 'Ϲ' common in medieval Greek), [23] and written with titlo (diacritic ...
[425] [426] Other than Aramaic and Hebrew, it is likely that he was also able to speak in Koine Greek. [427] [428] [429] Modern scholars agree that Jesus was a Jew of 1st-century Judea. [430] Ioudaios in New Testament Greek [s] is a term which in the contemporary context may refer to religion (Second Temple Judaism), ethnicity (of Judea), or both.
The main examples of "dying-and-rising gods" discussed by Frazer were the Mesopotamian god Dumuzid/Tammuz, his Greek equivalent Adonis, the Phrygian god Attis, and the Egyptian god Osiris. [204] [207] [208] Dumuzid/Tammuz was a god of Sumerian origin associated with vegetation and fertility who eventually came to be worshipped across the Near ...