Did You Know That There Couldn't Have Been A Jew, A Jerusalem, A Jehovah, Or Anything That Start With The Letter J Until The 1500S?enter Your Question Title Here

[Zillionaire1]

Since the letter J wasn't invented until the 1500s.

[Mamyalynne]

Not correct, Google your own question.

eg

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-Jewish-called-if-the-letter-J-was-invented-in-the-1600s

[maggiebee]

No doubt you will enlighten us.

[Old_Geezer]

Didn't a Y get used ? Same words/meanings anyway.

[Buenchico]

Your question seems to assume that the (modern) Latin alphabet is the only one that's ever existed! That might come as a surprise to someone from, Russia, Saudi Arabia or Greece (where they don't use the Latin alphabet) or, indeed to someone from Japan or China (where there's no alphabet at all!)

Most of the Bible was written using the Greek alphabet, where Jerusalem would have been written as Ιερουσαλήμ. In the official languages in use in Jerusalem today, the city's name is written as either ירושלים (in Hebrew) or بيت المقدس (in Arabic), so they seem to get along perfectly well without the letter 'j'!

[mushroom25]

W begins with a D. how random is that?

[bookbinder]

My word! Isn't that interesting!

[Stephen_G]

Or watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[jno]

there were iewes and ierusalem and yahweh, but they were most likely pronounced with the sound we use for J. (But this would vary. Germans pronounce Ja as Ya.)

[Old_Geezer]

Furreners eh ? Tsk.

[pastafreak]

I wonder if zillionaire1 is pondering this...or hiding because he's a bit...wrong?

[ChuckFickens]

The word jerusalem in the cyrillic language/alphabet is
Иерусалим

Does that mean that it doesn't exist to cyrillic speakers now because they don't have a J?

Or does it mean that languages are different and they can evolve but the concept or place they're describing is the same?

[ludwig]

I think all of those things were there. They probably just spelt them differently.

[shoota]

'I wonder if zillionaire1 is pondering this...or hiding because he's a bit...wrong?'

He's gone - dangling...

[Ken4155]

So, if we are to believe the OP - and not the resulting posts - it was Oseph, Mary and baby Esus we should be putting in our nativity settings.

[Peter Pedant]

caesar ad sum iam forte
so - - - youre saying that Caesar couldnt have had jam for tea
poor ceezy !

yeah and eyes up IHS that you see on the cross above crucified christ

ihsous - but it couldnt be - coz there is no 'J'
and so in that monty python film - instead of correcting "Romani ite domus" - they cd have got out a pencil and crossed out the i in IHS and put in a 'J' to make JHS

amzing what you learn on AB

[Peter Pedant]

oh and whilst we are at forrin - I think the arabic for jerusalem is
القُدس‎.

[Theland]

Does Zillionaire know of a cure for jandruf?