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Yeshua vs. Eshua
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Just to bring Arabic into the equation again, as I have learnt so much of the lingo now given my work, do you notice how Arabic has actually altered the 'noon' at the end of Yona to a 'seen' <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile --> ? Hence the Arabic version of Yona/Yonan is Yonas, which kinda resembles the Greek a bit!

As for Eshua, I think the Arabic has the written form as how the Eastern Aramaic speakers used to prounounce the name. Hence the 'eesaa'. I think the spelling was done as so, but starting with an AYIN [which means strangling yourself to pronounce. I don't how Semites can pronounce this letter without near death every time <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> ) and spelt AYIN-YAY-SEEN-YAA. I think whats really reflected here is the pronounciation of ESHOOA as used by the Eastern Aramaic speakers who inevitably had much Arab contact.

Modern Arabic speakers of Christianity though reverted to the spelling of YAY-SEEN-WAW-AYIN or YESSOWA'. This is used by many of the Arab Christians who have joined the Western Churches. This spelling is found in the NIV Arabic Version.

Quite often in Semetic languages anyway I see that a YODH/YAY in the middle of a word is pronounced as an I anyway rather than as a 'ye-'. I.e. BRESHYT in Genesis 1:1
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Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 03-24-2004, 03:20 PM
[No subject] - by Gentile - 03-25-2004, 02:22 PM
Yeshua vs. Eshua - by george - 03-29-2004, 02:38 AM
[No subject] - by Gentile - 03-30-2004, 10:01 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by tomkocherry - 12-20-2007, 08:01 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by The Orthodox Jew - 01-20-2009, 06:27 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-20-2009, 03:22 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Karl - 01-21-2009, 10:42 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-21-2009, 11:13 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Lars Lindgren - 01-21-2009, 11:56 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-22-2009, 04:12 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Lars Lindgren - 01-22-2009, 12:05 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Karl - 01-22-2009, 03:51 PM

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