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Yes, Christ has many names in the Bible, Son of God, Son of Man, Word, Lion of Judah, King of Kings etc., but Jesus isn't one of them, and it doesn't even come close to His true name.

And what scholar (?) did you read this from?

] Is Jesus Really Jesus?


The name Joshua, a contracted form of Jehoshua (yehoshua), which also appears in the form Jeshua (yeshua, Neh 8:17), signifies “Yahweh is deliverance” or “salvation,” and is [color:red]formed on the analogy of many Israelite names, as Jehoiakim (yehoyaqim), “Yahweh exalteth,” Jehohanan (yehochanan), “Yahweh is gracious,” Elishua or Elisha (elishua, elisha), “God is deliverance,” Elizur (elitsur), “God is a rock,” etc. In the narrative of the mission of the spies in Nu 13, the name is given as Hoshea (hoshea, 13:8, 16; compare Dt 32:44 ), which is changed by Moses to Joshua (Nu 13:16). In the passage in Deuteronomy, however, the earlier form of the name is regarded by Dr. Driver (Commentary in the place cited.) as an erroneous reading.

The Greek form of the name is Jesus (Iesous, Acts 7:45; Heb 4:8, the Revised Version (British and American) “Joshua,” but the King James Version “Jesus” in both passages), and this form appears even in the passages cited above from Nehemiah and Deuteronomy. In Nu 13:8, 16, however, Septuagint has [Hause]. The name occurs in later Jewish history, e.g. as that of the owner of the field in which the ark rested after its return from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam 6:14, 18), and appears to have become especially frequent after the exile (Ezr 2:40; Zec 3:1 ab, etc.). It is also found (Jeshua) with a local signification as the name of one of the “villages” in Southern Judea, where the repatriated Jews dwelt after their return from Babylon (Neh 11:26).

So what is Jesus' name?
JESUS


Orr, James, M.A., D.D. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: 1915 Edition. Edited by James Orr. Albany, OR: Ages Software, 1999.

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