Whether identified as Jesus or Yeshua, the story of his birth remains consistent. Born in Bethlehem of a virgin and laid in a manager, Jesus's birth has been celebrated by Christians for centuries.

Special thanks to Dr. Benjamin Suchard for his invaluable insights and expertise in consulting on this episode. What was the ...

“His name would probably have been in Aramaic: Yeshua,” she explained. “It is likely that this is also how he introduced himself. Another possibility is the shorter form Yeshu, which is the ...

But there's something unusual about the name "Jesus," since in the original copies of the Bible, his Hebrew name is actually written as Yeshua, which more closely aligns to the English name, Joshua.

Many people shared the name. Christ’s given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua, was quite common in first-century Galilee. (Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then ...

His name had a second coming. Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that&#82… ...

Those of you who are regular readers of the Saturday Sermon have most likely noticed that I usually refer to Jesus not by that anglicization of the Greek but rather by “Yeshua.” Why do I do ...

Below is the popularity graph of the name Yeshua from 1976 to 2024, based on data from the SSA. Based on the popular names list by SSA, the Hebrew origin boy name has remained popular over the last ...

You can simply see him as Yeshua ben Yosef, a Jewish preacher and healer who must have been deeply charismatic in order to have raised such strong opposition and attracted such devoted followers.