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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...

infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke, though he is also named as Jesus’ father in Luke 3:23; 4:22; John 6:42. Only in Matthew 13:55 is he called a carpenter (τέκτων),3 a term which in the Markan parallel (6:3) applies to Jesus himself. From Joseph’s absence from the Gospels in the period of the ministry and the Gospels’ references to Jesus’ mother and brothers together but without Joseph (Matt 12:46; Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19; John 2:12; Acts 1:14; cf. also GNaz 2), it is generally concluded that Joseph
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