Issa in Islam is not Jesus in the bible. He is the antithesis of Jesus as much as the god of Islam is to the G-d of Israel. No relation. - Jeri
scholars agree that even ETYMOLOGICALLY isa is not arabic for jesus. -----there
are patterns in language when rendering a name from one language to another---
and ISA simply does not conform to anything that would connect it to
"jesus" Some conjecture that the name "ISA" is a result of confusion
in the early writers of the koran-----in that they confused ESAU (the twin
brother of jacob) with "jesus" of the new testament. Jesus is a rendering
of YESHUA which is an aramaic form-----almost a diminutive of Yehoshua---
or----- the H --or HO part of YEHOSHUA ---is something of a formality
in the hebrew name-----for some reason got dropped out in the aramaic form
think back to abraham----whose original aramaic name is AVRAM
(no H) For a discussion of those extra H's ask a rabbi
the ISA of islam is a muslim