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What commentary or traditions, if any, exist concerning the identity of the person named Joseph in Matthew 13?
What commentary or traditions, if any, exist concerning the identity of the person named Joseph in Matthew 13?
The Gospel of Matthew was probably written in Aramaic. The Aramaic word for brother can ...
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What commentary or traditions, if any, exist concerning the identity of the person named Joseph in Matthew 13?
The Jewish tradition of not naming one's son after his father seems not to have existed at the time in question. For example a study of 2nd century CE Jewish business documents in Scripta Classica ...
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What commentary or traditions, if any, exist concerning the identity of the person named Joseph in Matthew 13?
James the Just (son of Joseph, brother of the Lord)
James the Less (son of Alphaeus, apostle)
James the Greater (son of Zebedee, apostle)
It is highly unlikely that the mentioned James in Mt 13:55 is ...
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Is there any biblical basis for the Church to depict Jesus as a European or some other ethnic race?
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Is there any biblical basis for the Church to depict Jesus as a
European or some other ethnic race?
This assumes that Europeans look different from people who lived in what is now Israel ...
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