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David Engel (born 1951) is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Engel received his Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry in Jerusalem.
Peter Lampe, professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Heidelberg and working in archaeology, pointed out that in the 120s/130s CE in the port town of Maoza at the southern end of the Dead Sea, one Jewish household comprised the following names: Jesus, Simon, Mariame, Jacobus and Judah (Papyri Babatha 17 from 128 CE; 25–26 and ...
The Davidic line refers to the descendants of David, who established the House of David (Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד Bēt Dāwīḏ) in the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. In Judaism , it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible , as well as on later Jewish traditions .
Howard Engel (1931–2019), Canadian mystery writer and producer; Jerzy Engel (born 1952), former Polish football manager; Joel Engel (composer) (1868–1927), Russian-born Jewish composer; Joel S. Engel (born 1936), American engineer and scientist; Johann Jakob Engel (1741–1802), German philosophical writer; Josef Engel (born 1942), Czech ...
The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
Consequently, all the names between David and Joseph are different. According to Matthew 1:16 "Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary", [38] while according to Luke 3:23, Joseph is said to be "the son of Heli". [39] The variances between the genealogies given in Matthew and Luke are explained in a number of ways.
The Golden Legend, which derives its account from the much older Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, recounts how, when Mary was 14 and living in the Temple, the High Priest gathered all male descendants of David of marriageable age including Saint Joseph. The High Priest ordered them to each bring a rod; he that owned the rod which would bear flowers ...
Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [7] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity , venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen , many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto .