Why isn’t Yahshua’s name in the Encyclopedia Britannica?

     I was listening to this guy mentioning that the Name YAHWEH was not in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Of course I was curious so I looked myself and found Yahweh’s Name there, and was relieved. But I couldn’t find Yahshua’s name there. How come?

 

     Did you look up “Jesus Christ”? The 1974 edition of the Britannica says that his Hebrew name is Yesu. The Britannica Eleventh edition says, “An educated Greek…would have known that ‘Jesus’ was the Greek form of Joshua.” The Encyclopedia Americana does a little better job. Under “Jesus Christ,” it reads that Matthew 1:21 “interprets the name (originally Joshua, that is Yahweh is salvation).” Realizing that His name is the same as the Old Testament Joshua, with the “J” corrected to the “Y” because there was no J in the Hebrew, we can begin to see His true Name come through.

As the Americana points out, it is connected to Yahweh. Being that His Name means “Yahweh is salvation,” He would at least have Yah in His Name. Because the Greek lacks the “sh” form, it uses “s” instead.

It takes a bit of sleuthing to ferret out the historical truth of the Name because of 2,000 years of erroneous church tradition, subterfuge, and the popularity of error. Add to that a blind fear of profaning the holiest Name in the universe and we are left with a Latinized-Greek replacement.

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Jacob
Jacob
6 years ago

“Being that His Name means “Yahweh is salvation,” He would at least have Yah in His Name.”

WHAT???

I’m sorry if this comes across crass as it isn’t my point to do so, but I find that your insistence on using Yahshua instead of Yeshua (or Yehoshua) really undermines any credibility in your command of Hebrew or basic research.

According to my study, no one before 1800 (!!) has ever used the name Yahshua.

How is it you insist that Yehovah sources are recent, but you use Yahshua without any ancient sources??

John
John
Reply to  Jacob
2 years ago

Yahshua(Joshua), shortened of Yahushua, and Yeshua(Jeshua) are two different Hebrew names used in the Old Testament. The spelling is different and the pronunciation is different. H3442 Yeshua ישׁוּע H3091 Yahshua יהושׁוּע Yahshua starts with the letters Yod and Hey, which is pronounced Yah, while Yeshua is just Yod which is pronounced Ye. So as you see Messiah’s Name carries the Name of Elohim while the other does not. H3050 Yah(Jah) יהּ(Yod Hey) is the contracted form of Yahwh. And tells us exactly how it is pronounced. The Saviors Name is Yahwh’s Salvation not he is salvation. I hate to sound… Read more »

Wayne hinds
Wayne hinds
10 months ago

Funny things is this, as far as can I can remember, the scripture says that the son will bear the FATHER’S name in his NAME, I don’t see how an idol name came to be used for worship and everyone believes that lie