Two near-contemporary Roman sources give evidence of Jesus. Suetonius, in the Life of Claudius, talks about a Chrestus who caused public distrubances—possibly a reference to Christ. Tacitus, in Annals ...

A: This is a misunderstood fact about Jesus. His name was not Jesus Christ. Christ is not a family name like Gellman. Christ is a title, which is from the Greek translation of the Hebrew word mashiach ...

Jesus lived in a Hebrew and Aramaic speaking world, not an English one. His name was a common Jewish name that later passed through Greek and Latin. Each language altered its sound and spelling. By ...

The Hebrew name יהושע yehoshuaʿ,* was pronounced yeshu in Galilee; becoming Iesus or Jesus in Greek-Latin. The form Yeshu was probably common among the Jews at that time, but was discontinued ...