Editing Yeshua (section)

==Archaeological evidence==

[[Tal Ilan]]'s Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity (2002) includes for "Joshua" 85 examples of Hebrew {{Transliteration|he|Yēšūaʿ}}, 15 of {{Transliteration|he|Yəhōšūaʿ}}, and 48 examples of {{Transliteration|grc|Iesous}} in Greek inscriptions," with only one Greek variant as {{Transliteration|grc|Iesoua}}.<ref>''Buried Hope Or Risen Savior: The Search for the Jesus Tomb'' 2008 p81 Charles Quarles – 2008 "The distinction between the longer and shorter forms does not exist in Greek. The Greek Iesous (Ineous) was used to represent both Yehoshua' and Yeshua'. There are 48 instances of Iesous (Iesous and several eccentric spellings),  "</ref> One ossuary of the around twenty known with the name Yeshua, Rahmani No.9, discovered by [[Ezra Sukenik]] in 1931, has "Yeshu... Yeshua ben Yosef." The "Yeshu..." may have been scratched out.<ref name="Witherington & Schanks">{{cite book |title=Brother of Jesus |author1=[[Hershel Shanks]] |author2=[[Ben Witherington]] |pages=59–60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWjhff705FkC&pg=PA60}} Photo of the "Yeshu... Yeshua bar Yehosef" ossuary and dual inscription.</ref> Two [[Jewish magical papyri|Jewish magical incantation bowls]] have been discovered both bearing variant spellings of Yeshua.<ref>Incantation bowls in Montgomery and Moussaief/Levene 2002. See transcription in Bauckham essay in Quarles.</ref>

Apart from the "Yeshua... Yeshua ben Yosef" ossuary, the only other known evidence for the existence of a Yeshua form prior to the material related to [[Jesus in the Talmud]], is a graffito which [[Joachim Jeremias]] identified in Bethesda in 1966, but which is now filled in.<ref>New Testament theology Joachim Jeremias – 1977 "... 1965, 284–93: 285; a graffito which I found in the south wall of the southern pool at Bethesda, now covered in, also read [y\fw ', see my: The Rediscovery of Bethesda, New Testament Archaeology Monograph No I, Louisville, Ky., 1966, ..."</ref>