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Hegesippus

Male given name

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Jan 29, 2026
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How confident are we that James was Jesus’s brother?

Historic evidence makes it highly probable that a prominent figure known as existed and led ; scholars differ, however, on what “brother” precisely denotes—blood brother, step‑brother, or close kinsma...

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How did early church writers (Origen, Eusebius, Jerome) argue that Jesus’ brothers were not Mary’s biological children?

Early church writers offered three main defenses against reading the “brothers” of as ’s biological children: and advanced the claim they were ’s children from an earlier marriage (making them step‑br...