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  I would appreciate some intelligent and informed guidance on the following
matter:

  I seem to have recently gotten involved in a debate over the nature of the
name "Jesus" as it appears in the New Testament.  My current understanding is
that the actual spelling in Greek is "IESOUS," and that this is a variation of
the name "Jason," which is generally spelled as IASON or IESON in Greek. It is
my understanding that this same name has other alternative and variant
spellings such as Iasion, Iasios, Iasius, Iasus, Iesus,Iasio, Eetion, Aetion,
Aesion and probably others as well depending on local dialect and tradition.
Apparently all of these names mean "HEALER" in Greek, and are derrived from
the Greek verb iasmai/iesmai which means "to heal."

   As I understand this, the man history calls Jesus Christ is believed to
have called himself by the Hebrew name "Yoshua", (Joshua) and when the story
came to be written down in Greek, his Hebrew name Yoshua was translated and
written down as "Iesous" ("Jesus") because Iesous(Jesus) is the Greek
equivalent of the Hebrew name Joshua.

   So the various names Jesus, Jason, and Joshua, as well as assorted
variations in spelling are all essentially equivalent.

   My problem is that I do not speak nor read Greek. I don't know and alpha
from an omega. I would like the advice and input of someone who IS an expert
in Greek language and literature. I would like to hear from someone with a
serious credentials in this area.  Is their anyone out there, an experienced
Greek scholar, Biblical scholar, expert on classic Greek literature, Professor
of linguistics or someone with a similar background that can comment on the
relationship between these various names Jesus and Jason, and whether the
names Jesus and Jason are Greek equivalents or not.  Any informed and
intelligent guidance on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Jake Wilson

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