What was Jesus’s Real Name?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you ?) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Jesus’ name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua. So how did we get the name “Jesus”? And is “Christ” a last name? Watch the episode to find out! Like our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Linda Huang and Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/12/happy_birthday_dear_yeshua_happy_birthday_to_you.html https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/columnists/god-squad/god-squad-how-jesus-christ-got-his-name-1.12863789 "Jesus, n.". OED Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/101162?redirectedFrom=jesus. "Christ, n.". OED Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/32427?redirectedFrom=christ Liddell, Henry George. Scott, Robert. 1811-1898. A Greek-English Lexicon. 8th ed., rev. throughout. Oxford: The Clarendon press; [etc.], 1929. http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=kjbible&PagePosition=1219 https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/12/jesus.html Special thanks to: Bart Ehrman, Luke Timothy Johnson, Russ Spittler and Grant Wacker who provided insights during the fact checking process for this episode.