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This volume is an original and important contribution to the study of the earliest Palestinian Jewish Christianity. For the first time all the evidence for the role which relatives of Jesus played in the early church is assembled and assessed. Dr. Bauckham discusses a wide range of evidence, not only from the New Testament but also from the Church Fathers, the New Testament Apocrypha, rabbinic...

Emmaus as Simon.42 If this were trustworthy, he could be Clopas’ son Symeon, whom we know from Hegesippus. But it may well be only a misunderstanding of Luke 24:34, or merely a guess that Clopas’ well-known son Symeon would have been his companion. It is rather unlikely that someone so important at the time when Luke heard the tradition and wrote his Gospel should not be named.43 Various members of the twelve have, on various grounds, been identified as relatives of Jesus.44 We have already rejected
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