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At this time it would have been unthinkable to give the charge of taking care of ones mother to a non family member especially when a son of hers was alive. So the idea of James being the actual brother of Jesus, and Jesus giving the charge to a non family member instead of his actual brother is not realistic. James was instead a cousin to Jesus not a brother. In ancient Hebrew there simply was no word for cousin. Brother was used for cousin also.

Preceding comment was added to the main article by 2600:1010:B153:CB3B:84F:6B6E:160E:2CAB. Moved to talk by Alpha3031 (talk | contribs) 08:34, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

First of all, the New Testament was written in Greek, not Hebrew, and there is a word for cousin in Greek (ἀνεψιός). Jesus and his followers would not spoken Hebrew either; instead they would have spoken Aramaic, since Hebrew had fallen out of everyday use over a century prior, which makes your claim about there being "no word for cousin" in Hebrew irrelevant. Second of all, historians generally do not regard the Gospel of John as a historical narrative; typically Biblical historians rely on the Synoptic Gospels, not the Gospel of John, which is usually regarded as a theological treatise rather than a historical biography. From a mainstream Biblical criticism perspective, the scene in the Gospel of John where Jesus entrusts his mother Mary to the care of the "beloved disciple" is therefore unlikely to be historical. In any case, the gospel never actually says who the "beloved disciple" is and people have just assumed over the years that he is John. In fact, some scholars have argued that the beloved disciple is James, the brother of Jesus. --Katolophyromai (talk) 11:47, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

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Fringe?

"(There is a view that 'strangled' and 'blood' in the texts refer to foreskin conditions - paraphimosis and ruptured frenulum, respectively.)[Douglas E. "JQuad".]" Has anyone else endorsed this interpretation? Mannanan51 (talk) 22:13, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

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