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Comment author: timujin 21 December 2014 02:23:37PM 1 point [-]

The claim that people can't pronounce Jesus' name might apply to former Soviet Union countries, but I doubt it applies anywhere else in Europe.

Do you know that Jesus's actual name is Yeshua?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 December 2014 04:04:01PM 3 points [-]

We don't know that. It was likely some variant of the name commonly translated as "Joshua" in English. It could have been Yeshua or Yehoshua or a variety of slightly Aramacized variants of that.

Comment author: timujin 21 December 2014 05:01:24PM 2 points [-]

But English language's "Jesus" is still far off.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 December 2014 06:16:10PM 0 points [-]

Sure, but I fail to see how that's relevant to the point in question.

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