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The author of ''Ecclesiastius,'' a book which [[Catholicism|Catholics]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] consider deuterocanonical, but Protestants place in the Apocrypha, is known as ''Jesus of Sira.''
The author of ''Ecclesiastius,'' a book which [[Catholicism|Catholics]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] consider deuterocanonical, but Protestants place in the Apocrypha, is known as ''Jesus of Sira.''
The name ''Joshua'' from the old testament is the same name as ''Jesus'', it just hasn't gone through the Greek.
The name ''Joshua'' from the Old Testament is the Anglicized form of Hebrew ''Yeshua'' ("Jehovah saved"). ''Jesus'' is the Anglicized form of Greek ''Iesous'', which in turn is the Hellenized form of ''Yeshua''.
== See also ==
== See also ==