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tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day agoI like to think that a small learjet carrying 12 passengers passes through a time portal, and when the captain steps out onto that Tigris plain, he winces at the sun and says “Jesus Christ!” and the people bowed
fonix232@fedia.io 1 day ago
See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.
No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So, modernized, Joshua Messiah
fonix232@fedia.io 1 day ago
Joshuah the Messiah/Anointed, yes.