medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The Latin may be carried over into the English in the form Jesu, with a
hard J, found in English anthems.
Tom Izbicki
At 09:56 AM 9/26/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>This recent discussion of the spelling of Jesus in medieval Europe has been
>very interesting, and has led me to revise my assumptions on the
>transmission of the name:
>
>(in reverse chronological order)
>
>English: Jesus
>
>Latin: Jesu or Iesu
>
>Greek: Ihsous
>
>Hebrew: Yeshu
>
>Aramaic: Yeshua
>
>Sanskrit: Yeshoda (the mother of Krishna)
>
>
>Anyone care to comment on this possible line of transmission? (yes, I know
>the last line is controversial).
>
>And would anyone like to comment on similar changes in the spelling of
>Christ?
>
>
>John Noyce
>postgraduate research student
>Centre for the Study of Religion and Theology
>Monash University, Australia
>
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