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Jesus Christ / Jesus the Messiah Aramaic: ישוע משיחא Aramaic with vowels: יֵשׁוּע משִׁיחָא Transliteration: Yeshu Mesheekhaw Joshua (son of Nun) Person 1355 BC: 1245 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤅𐤏 [3] Pronunciation: Yaw-oo-shaw-oo-eh Meaning: Yahweh is Salvation Judah, Kingdom of
The New Testament identifies Jesus the Christ as the Most High, Whose Name is above all names (Philippians 2:9-10). The Gospel of Mark, often claimed by modern scholarship to be the first and earliest of the Four Gospels, [94] identifies Jesus Christ as the LORD God of Israel by reference to the Tetragrammaton at the beginning of his Gospel:
Two nomina sacra are highlighted, ΙΥ and ΘΥ, representing of/from Jesus and of/from God (as these are genitives) respectively, in this passage from John 1 in Codex Vaticanus (B), 4th century. In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: nomen sacrum , Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring ...
Two Talmudic-era texts referring to a "Jesus, son of Pantera (Pandera)" are Tosefta Hullin 2:22f: "Jacob… came to heal him in the name of Jesus son of Pantera" and Qohelet Rabbah 1:8(3): "Jacob… came to heal him in the name of Jesus son of Pandera" and some editions of the Jerusalem Talmud also specifically name Jesus as the son of Pandera ...
The gospels also suggest that he was the husband of Salome; whereas Mark 15:40 names the women present at the crucifixion as "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and of Joses, and Salome," the parallel passage in Matthew 27:56 has "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children."
Saint Martha, hostess of our Lord Jesus Christ, was born of a royal kindred. Her father was named Syro and her mother Encharia. The father of her was duke of Syria and places maritime, and Martha with her sister possessed by the heritage of their mother three places, that was, the castle Magdalen, and Bethany and a part of Jerusalem.
The equivalent Hebrew name is Zibiah, also spelled Tsibiah, a name carried by the mother of King Joash of Judah. [9] Some explain the use of a Greek variant of Tabitha's Syriac Aramaic name by the fact that she was living in a port city, where many inhabitants and visitors would primarily communicate in Greek. [ 9 ]
The name appears in the New Testament, specifically in John 19:25: Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas , and Mary Magdalene . He is often identified with another figure of a similar name, Cleophas ( Κλεοπᾶς ), one of the two disciples who met Christ during the road to Emmaus appearance ...