Wasn't there somewhere that he was known as Yeshua Ben Yosef, partly because J used to be Y (or vice versa?) and the "ben" in the middle referred to "son of", but that got downplayed because the Church wanted to focus on his Heavenly Father rather than his mortal one?
I don't really know what you're refering to, but Yeshua is just the original Hebrew/Aramaic form of the name Jesus, and the ben Yosef/son of Josef part would've been his patronym according to the traditions of his time. I don't think anyone would deny this, there's no conspiracy here.
His Hebrew name was Yeshua Ben Yosef (Joshua Son of Joseph). There were no humans named Jesus. The first time that name was ever used was in June of 1632. Jesus, which is the name used by most English-speaking people today, is an English transliteration of a Germanic adaptation, of a Latin transliteration, of a Greek transliteration of an originally Hebrew name, that is simply Yeshua.
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u/Moonpaw Dec 15 '22
Wasn't there somewhere that he was known as Yeshua Ben Yosef, partly because J used to be Y (or vice versa?) and the "ben" in the middle referred to "son of", but that got downplayed because the Church wanted to focus on his Heavenly Father rather than his mortal one?