The query: List the Biblical Hebrew personal name Joshua in Biblical Hebrew, LXX, Peshitta, and Vulgate.
The answer:[quote]The Biblical Hebrew personal name Joshua appears in various ancient texts with different renderings. In Biblical Hebrew, the name is יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)[1]. The Septuagint (LXX) renders this name as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)[2]. In the Peshitta, the Syriac version, it is referred to as "Yeshu bar Nun"[2]. The Vulgate, which is not explicitly mentioned in the provided articles, would likely use the Latin form "Iosue" based on standard Latin renderings of Hebrew names, though this is not directly stated in the given information[3].
[1] Tal Ilan,
“Names,” in The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010), 990.
[2] B. K. Waltke,
“Joshua, Book of,” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised, ed. Geoffrey W Bromiley (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988), 1134.
[3] Douglas Stuart,
Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, Fourth Edition (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), 36.
Not to mention that I had to play with it to use the personal name Joshua instead of the book of Joshua which it was absolutely certain I meant.
Given how absolutely fundamental the Latin, Greek, and Syriac Bibles are to Christian history, I couldn't believe Verbum was this limited. Nor could I believe that only 1 of its 3 sources was apt to have appropriate material.
