Have you ever heard of Jesus being called Jesus H. Christ? This is, in fact, not a little-known middle name like Howard, but a relic of the Greek alphabet and Christian symbolism. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Dr Dan McClellan, Biblical scholar at the University of Birmingham and keen TikTokker, explains that the most widely accepted theory of the middle “H” initial is that it originated as a Christogram, a monogram formed of letters and symbols representing Jesus .

Christograms can be found on all kinds of artifacts, from artworks and coins to gravestones and even ancient tattoos.

In early Christian tradition, the name "Jesus" was written in Greek as ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ( Iēsous ). Its first three letters were used as an a

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