The Messiah's Name

[Paul Younan]

Thank you for answering Thadman. But what about what I also mentioned regarding the usage of the name 'Isho'? I have heard the Messiah referred to in this way at the Assyrian Church in West London. I think also names like 'Dad-isho' and George Lamsa's middle name use this variant of the Messiah's name. Neither the Y at the start nor the A at the end of 'Yeshua' appears to be pronounced in either of these! So what is the explanation :?:

See: http://answering-islam.org/Books/Mingana/Influence/

Especially the part that says:

Now the pronunciation used in the Arabic proper names mentioned above is that of the Nestorians and not that of the Jacobites. The latter say ishmo'il, isroil and Ishok etc., and not Ishma'il, Isra'il, and Ishak, as they appear in the Kur'an.

"Ishoo" or "Eshoo" is the modern, eastern Neo-Aramaic pronunciation. It is not the original, Archaic Aramaic pronunciation (in this case more accurately preserved by the Jacobites)