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The 19th century scholar J.B. Lightfoot identified three possible positions on the relationship to Jesus of those called his brothers and sisters by reference to their 4th century advocates, namely the Helvidian (after Helvidius, who wrote c. 380), the Epiphanian (after Epiphanius of Salamis, 315-403), and the Hieronymian (after Jerome, 349-419 ...
Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
Joses or Joseph, son of a Mary of Clopas and brother of a James (James the Less according to Mark 15:40 [4]), mentioned in Mark 15:40, [4] Mark 15:47, [5] and Matthew 27:56 [6] Joses or Joseph, the real name of Barnabas according to Acts 4:36 [7] [8] [9] There is also a Ἰησοῦ or a Ἰωσή (Jose, Joshua or Jesus) in Luke 3:29 [10] [11]
Some Bible translations transliterate the name Ιωσηφ depending on the context for better distinction, such as the 2004 Dutch Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, which writes Jozef wherever Saint Joseph of Nazareth or Joseph (Genesis) are identified (24 verses), [9] and Josef wherever other persons are concerned (14 verses); [10] additionally, three verses in Mark (6:3, 15:40, 15:47) identify a Joses.
The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef: first, it is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ': "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ': "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son."
According to the bishop of Salamis, Epiphanius, in his work The Panarion (AD 374–375) Joseph became the father of James and his three brothers (Joses, Simeon, Judah) and two sisters (a Salome and a Mary [73] or a Salome and an Anna [74]) with James being the eldest sibling. James and his siblings were not children of Mary but were Joseph's ...
Joseph Menendez, who goes by his middle name Lyle, and younger brother, Erik Menendez, have been in California prisons since 1996, serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for ...
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.