And if "Jesus" means "savior", then so does Isaiah, which is another form of the same name.


On another subject,
Peace gave us a link to an essay about the writings of various ancient writers, and the article says, at one point, discussing Pliny the Younger:

Some eighty years after Calvary, somebody was worshiping a Christ (Hebrew equivalent for Messiah)!

That parenthetical comment is entirely different from the etymology I've always understood.

As I understand from what I was taught in confirmation class 62 years ago, "Christ" is not Hebrew, or Aramaic; it's Greek, from "christos", and doesn't mean "messiah" but "anointed one".

The parenthetical in the quote I suspect is not from Pliny the Younger, as it seems to imply, but the insertion (probably the editorial guess or self-serving argument) of an uninformed present-day commentator.

Can anyone show any authoritative etymological source that "Christ" is "Jewish for "messiah"?

Dave Oesterreich