[B-Greek] Iesous/zeus connection

Donald R. Vance, Ph.D. donaldrvance at mac.com
Thu Sep 29 12:24:53 EDT 2005


It is not merely a question of pronouncing the <ayin but whether  
there was a furtive patah. Syriac (an Aramaic language) has he <ayin  
but does not indicated a furtive patah: yeshu<.
As for Gary's point about the pejorative pronunciation, that is  
something about which I was totally unaware. Is there some  
documenatation or discussion of this somewhere that one can easily  
access? I'd love to read about this.

Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature
Oral Roberts University
dvance at oru.edu
donaldrvance at mac.com


On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Gary Hedrick wrote:

>

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>     Re: Yeshu in the Galilee, someone was asking for examples of the
> Yeshu spelling, but it's not an issue of spelling.  We know that  
> Yeshua was
> spelled yod-shin-vav-ayin.  It's a contraction of Yehoshua, or  
> Joshua.  The
> issue about Yeshua is whether the ayin was pronounced.  There is a  
> theory
> that the Galileans did not pronounce final ayin, but I don't  
> believe there
> is scholarly consensus on this.
>     In traditional (non-messianic) Judaism, some of the rabbis,
> particularly those with an axe to grind, drop the final ayin and  
> refer to
> Yeshua as Yeshu.  But it has nothing to do with an ancient Galilean
> pronunciation.  It's an acrostic that represents a curse on Jesus of
> Nazareth.  Thankfully, these extremists are in a minority.
>
> Gary
>
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