Was Jesus's Real Name Yeshua or Joshua?: The name Yeshua (the original form of the Hebrew name, itself being a derivation of the earlier Yehoshua) was relatively popular in Judea in Jesus' time. One finds in the works of Flavius Josephus, the 1st-century historian, at least 20 different persons called Iesous.
Was Jesus's Real Name Yeshua or Joshua?
