Re: who invented the name Jesus?
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:35 pm
The works of Philo, a Jew, which consist of over 40 books do not mention any character called Jesus.MrMacSon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:56 pmyeah, Nah. Aspects of the narrative about the NT character Iesous might have been motivated by or borrowed from accounts of Iesous characters in the works of Josephus, but not the name itself.
Iesous was a common name but it was also the Greek transliteration of the name of a revered Jewish leader, Y'hosua/Y'shua/Yeshu'a, the successor to Moses, and also said to have been a major prophet. A name and character the likes of Philo had revered in the early first century AD/CE
Philo revered only the God Creator of the Jews--not men. There is also no prophet recorded by Jewish writers identified as Jesus of Nazareth.
Philo's On Embassy to Gaius XVI
.....for it would have been easier to change a god into man, than a man into God[/b,
Philo and the Jews did not worship men as Gods and it was for that very reason why he went to Rome to represent the Jews to the Emperor Gaius who was revered as a God except by Jews.
Philo's On Embassy to GaiusXVI.
(114) Have we not, then, learned from all these instances, that Gaius ought not to be likened to any god, and not even to any demi-god, inasmuch as he has neither the same nature, nor the same essence, nor even the same wishes and intentions as any one of them.
It is simply implausible that Philo would represent the Jews against the Emperor Gaius to argue that men should not be worshiped as Gods while he himself a Jew was presently worshiping men as Gods.