James

[Mike_Oettle]

Indeed, it is odd that the translations favour the one form in the Old Testament and the other in the New.
And it is not as if the Greek suggests a spelling with M in it.
Regards,
Mike

[Ruanaidh]

Indeed, it is odd that the translations favour the one form in the Old Testament and the other in the New. Mike

Another example: the Hebrew name that is translated as Joshua in the Old Testament is translated as Jesus in the New Testament.

[triforme]

I suppose that's true, however, in this case it seems to be an artifact of the translation through Greek. The Hebrew version is found in, say the book of Exodus, is Yeshouah, while the Greek version (in the Gospels, etc) is Iesous, so the English differentiation is just a transliteration in each case. But, indeed, they are the same name.