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Old 09-18-2008, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by als463 View Post
Now, I'm thinking back to when Rebecca was interviewing him (when she first met him) and she said it was name that his parents named him that...I decided to check out what his name would mean and this is what I found for the name Joshua:

JOSHUA m English, Biblical
From the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshu'a) meaning "YAHWEH is salvation"... [more]
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Originally Posted by epchick View Post
Well he said that his name was "ironic" because his parents were hippy types.

His name could be Joshua, even w/ hippy parents, because it is not a very "hippy" name, thus it being ironic.
Maybe they named him with the Hellenized version of Yehoshu'a -- Jesus.
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