Joshua died for the sin of the Fathers Elect.

Jesus is the English translation of Iesous (Ἰησοῦς), which is the Greek version of Yeshua (which translated directly into English is Joshua).

At least that's my understanding of it.

 

Yup. And the Greek pronunciation would be similar to Spanish "Hey-soos", which is spelled the same as in English

 

Right. That too.

 

Same reason we call Him Christ instead of Messiah.

New Testament written in Greek - Christ is Greek, Messiah is Hebrew. Both mean "Anointed One"

Hey-soos is Greek. All the Apostles wrote in Greek, and called Him Iesous (Hey-soos, i.e. Jesus) in their writings, not Yehoshua or Yeshua (Joshua)

If we wanted to try to get faithful to Hebrew, we should call Him Joshua Davidson the Anointed One

 

I agree. By and large, the significance of being the Anointed One has been supplanted by giving Him the last name of Christ

But let someone try to regain lost significance, and people will vet all bent out of shape about "changing His name"

 

Worthwhile write up on Wikipedia "Jesus (Name)"

Originally, 'I' and 'J' were different shapes for the same letter.

In the Authorized Version, Joshua is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 and Jesus in Acts 7:45 and Heb. 4:8.

“And Moses said to Joshua,… (Exodus 17:9, LEB)
“εἶπεν δὲ Μωυσῆς τῷ Ἰησοῦ…” (Exodus 17:9, LXX)

“ἣν καὶ εἰσήγαγον διαδεξάμενοι οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν μετὰ Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῇ κατασχέσει τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὧν ἐξῶσεν ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν ἕως τῶν ἡμερῶν Δαυίδ,” (Acts 7:45, NA28)

“Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;” (Acts 7:45, AV)

Looks (and means) the same in Greek.

Many parallels exist - Joshua/Jesus leads his people into the promised land.



Rob

 

I think it is a good program to correct translation errors of the past. However, provincialism requires slow introduction of accurate translation.
On this forum, we still have folks arguing for "begotten" at John 3:16, instead of "one of a kind." Perhaps some translations who changed "LORD" to "Yahweh" might consider changing "Christ" to Anointed One.