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The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Ancient Greek: ἀδελφοί, romanized: adelphoí, lit. 'of the same womb, brothers') [1] [a] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [2] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [3]
Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob by Diego Velázquez, 1630. In Genesis 37, Vayeshev, Joseph's half-brothers were envious of him. Most of them plotted to kill him in Dothan, except Reuben, [16] [17] who suggested they throw Joseph into an empty cistern; he intended to rescue Joseph himself later. Unaware of this plan to rescue Joseph, the ...
[83] He adds that Joseph became the father of James and his three brothers (Joses, Simeon, Judah) and two sisters (a Salome and a Mary [84] or a Salome and an Anna) [85] with James being the elder sibling. James and his siblings were not children of Mary but were Joseph's children from a previous marriage.
Joses (Ancient Greek: Ἰωσῆς [1]) is a name, usually regarded as a form of Joseph, occurring many times in the New Testament: . Joses, one of the four "brothers" of Jesus (Greek: ἀδελφοί, romanized: adelphoi, lit.
Joseph and His Brothers (German: Joseph und seine Brüder, pronounced [ˈjoːzɛf ʊnt ˌzaɪ̯nə ˈbʁyːdɐ]) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis , from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period .
His explanation for the different names given for Joseph's father is that Joseph had a biological father and an adoptive father, and that one of the gospels traces the genealogy through the adoptive father in order to draw parallels between Joseph and Jesus (both having an adoptive father) and as a metaphor for God's relationship with humankind ...
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 ...
Moses counting Joseph's kin. According to the Old Testament, the tribe consisted of descendants of Joseph, a son of Jacob and Rachel, from whom it took its name; [8] however, some Biblical scholars view this also as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.