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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...

Blinzler51 and McHugh.52 For full discussion, readers are referred to these treatments. Here it will only be possible to touch on the major issues involved in a decision between the three views. Of the three views the Hieronymian is the least plausible. The meaning of the word ἀδελφός is not decisive here. Leaving aside uses which do not refer to family relationships (fellow-countryman, co-religionist, etc.) and are clearly not relevant to this case, the word normally refers, like the English
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