The name "jesus" is a Greek translation ( iesou) (later Latinized into Jesus when the Romans invented the letter "J" in the middle ages. The original Hebrew name was Yehoshuah (meaning Yahweh is Salvation) but the actual pronunciation seems to have been more like Yeshua or Hosea. Again, the word "joshua" has to wait until the invention of the "J."
Yahweh seems to have been a minor figure in the overall Canaanite pantheon but his cult was centered in the desert areas around what later came to be Jerusalem during the Iron Age. This actually gives quite a lot of time for various bullshit stories to grow up about him.
Yahweh seems to have been a minor figure in the overall Canaanite pantheon but his cult was centered in the desert areas around what later came to be Jerusalem during the Iron Age. This actually gives quite a lot of time for various bullshit stories to grow up about him.
