Dumb questions: "Jesus" as a first name?

[AnchorClanker]

It's all pretty amusing as he was JOSHUA (Yeshua)

Jesus is a bad translation that stuck.

If true that is a AWFUL translation. Utterly different...

Awful?

wiki:

"Jesus" (IPA: /ˈdʒizʊs/) is a transliteration, occurring in a number of languages and based on the Latin Iesus, of the Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), itself a Hellenisation of the Hebrew יהושע (Yehoshua) or Hebrew-Aramaic ישוע (Yeshua ), (Joshua), meaning "the Lord rescues" or "the Lord delivers."

Yeshua, spelled יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšûă') or ישוע in Hebrew was a common name among Jews of the Second Temple Period, and is believed by some scholars and religious groups to be the Hebrew or Aramaic name for Jesus.

I don't know what you're saying here.
Yeshua and Jesus sound utterly different.

Yes, it would sound different, as the Greek-derived Latin translation made the "Y" into the "I/J" and made the "SH" into "S"
It's actually a double translation.  Take McDonalds, translate it into Japanese, and then from the Japanese into the Russian.
Much of a muchness.

[PDH]

What crap, you don't know Iesu.

(Note, for pedants, the proper use of the vocative case)

[AnchorClanker]

What crap, you don't know Iesu.

(Note, for pedants, the proper use of the vocative case)

This vaguely reminds me of the Jehovah's Witnesses and their stance on the name of Hod.
Again YWYH = Jehovah only *after* translation.

[PDH]

If I translate all of my swear words into nonsense words or things like "fudge" and "sugar" then I am no longer swearing.

[AnchorClanker]

If I translate all of my swear words into nonsense words or things like "fudge" and "sugar" then I am no longer swearing.

Indeed.  If "propaganda" becomes "strategic communication", then it MUST be ok and perfectly valid stuff.
Likewise with "torture" and "enhanced interrogation techniques".  "Estate Tax" and "Death Tax".  Spin is fun.

[Oexmelin]

No Jésus I can think of in French. There is probably a taboo on it. Some rare Josué, however.

[garbon]

Yes, it would sound different, as the Greek-derived Latin translation made the "Y" into the "I/J" and made the "SH" into "S"
It's actually a double translation.  Take McDonalds, translate it into Japanese, and then from the Japanese into the Russian.
Much of a muchness.

OMG, Yochanan, Iōannēs, Johann, Ivan, Juan, John, and Jean don't sound a like!

[Zanza]

If I want to name my son Fuckface, I should be allowed to. 

Nein, ze state knows what's best for you. 

Related, from yesterday:

German court shoots down triple-barrelled names

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KARLSRUHE, Germany (AFP) — A German married couple, the Thalheim-Kunz-Hallsteins, lost a battle before the country's top court Tuesday to defend the use of triple-barrelled names.

The plaintiff, a woman born Frieda Thalheim, had argued that a law passed in 1993 to ban couples from stringing more than two family names together violated their personal rights.

She had aimed to affix the last name of her husband, Hans-Peter Kunz-Hallstein, to her own maiden name, under which she had established a successful dentistry practice.

The Federal Constitutional Court ruled five-to-three that banning unwieldy names was "reasonable", noting that Thalheim had the right to use her maiden name professionally and her legal, married name in other settings.

It added that names had the function in a society of tracing a family line and that endlessly complicated names would create confusion.

"To this end, the legislative branches created laws to stifle the creation of multiple names," the court said.

Defenders of triple-pronged names had cited as prominent examples champion biathlete Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm and prominent pollster Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz, who nevertheless dropped the second half of her family name after her husband died.

[crazy canuck]

Somebody in a car with my wife driving might come to the conclusion that there are a lot of people named Jesus or even Jesus Christ.