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Jesus or Joshua? (bibles-scripture)

posted by fezik82, Ohio, 10.14.2009

I was reading Zechariah chapter 3 along with my Mom and we found that the Douay Rheims refers to the high priest as "Jesus" while other versions refer to the high priest as "Joshua". What I was actually looking for would have been great had they all said, "Jesus". When I went to bible.cc, I typed in "high priest Joshua" and every verse that possibly referred to him as the high priest read like, "to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest" like it was Jehozadak who was the high priest. I know that there is another Joshua, son of Nun who was referred to as "chief priest". So I have a few questions here... is chief priest the same thing as high priest? Is there a cluster of verses where it is clear that Joshua is a high priest? Another question (I don't do language changes very well) is this... I know that Yeshua is Jesus, but I believe that it is Hebrew for "Joshua"... is that right? Is it possible to find out if what was written on the scroll was, "Yeshua"? I would assume that if it were that easy, there wouldn't be so many differences, but I figured I'd ask!

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Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
~~Matthew 22:37

Complete thread:

• Jesus or Joshua? - fezik82, 10.14.2009 (bibles-scripture)
  • Jesus or Joshua? - bibleprobe, 10.22.2009
  • Jesus or Joshua? - Timotiyos, 11.05.2009
    • Jesus or Joshua? - fezik82, 11.06.2009
      • Thanks fezik82! Let's begin spelling Christmas as CHRISTmas - bibleprobe, 11.06.2009