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Word: yehoshuah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yehoshuah to Jesus. In their lectures, Jewish professors reciprocate by stressing not only Judaism's contemporary relevance but its common links with Christianity. At Georgetown, Rabbi Kraft likes to surprise his stu dents by pointing out that like many a Jewish immigrant's name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christians & Jews: Learning from the Chosen | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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