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'James the Less' is a figure of early Christianity.[1]
In the New Testament, James appears only in connection with his mother Mary in , , .
James the Less is almost universally identified with James, son of Alphaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles. He is also sometimes identified with James, the brother of Jesus.
The former identification was convenient as it juxtaposed the two Apostles called James as ''Major'' and ''Minor''. However, it also made it imperative to identify Clopas, the husband of Mary, with Alphaeus, the father of the Apostle James. (For the argument on this, see Alphaeus.)
This identification was almost universally accepted and therefore, tradition knows the Apostle as 'Saint James the Less'.
In and he is accompanied by a brother called Joses or Joseph.
Hegesippus, quoted by Eusebius (Hist. eccl., III, 11), mentions another son of Clopas called Simeon, who succeed James, brother of Jesus as head of the Jerusalem Church. The same passage also records that Clopas was the brother of Joseph, making his sons cousins of Jesus. [1]
This played into another identification, that of the Apostle James with "James, the brother of the Lord"
1. He is also labelled "the minor", "the little", "the lesser", or "the younger", according to translation.
★ Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint James the Less, identifying the Apostle James with James, brother of Jesus
★ James the Less: The Latter Rain Page
★ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesia
★ Who's Who in The New Testament, Ronals Brownrigg, Oxford University Press, 1993
★ The 12, The Story of Christ's Apostles, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
★ The Search for the Twelve Apostles, William Steuart McBirnie, Ph. D. Tyndale Pp183-194.
In the New Testament, James appears only in connection with his mother Mary in , , .
James the Less is almost universally identified with James, son of Alphaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles. He is also sometimes identified with James, the brother of Jesus.
The former identification was convenient as it juxtaposed the two Apostles called James as ''Major'' and ''Minor''. However, it also made it imperative to identify Clopas, the husband of Mary, with Alphaeus, the father of the Apostle James. (For the argument on this, see Alphaeus.)
This identification was almost universally accepted and therefore, tradition knows the Apostle as 'Saint James the Less'.
Statue at the church of the Mafra Palace, Portugal
In and he is accompanied by a brother called Joses or Joseph.
Hegesippus, quoted by Eusebius (Hist. eccl., III, 11), mentions another son of Clopas called Simeon, who succeed James, brother of Jesus as head of the Jerusalem Church. The same passage also records that Clopas was the brother of Joseph, making his sons cousins of Jesus. [1]
This played into another identification, that of the Apostle James with "James, the brother of the Lord"
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Notes
1. He is also labelled "the minor", "the little", "the lesser", or "the younger", according to translation.
External link
★ Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint James the Less, identifying the Apostle James with James, brother of Jesus
References
★ James the Less: The Latter Rain Page
★ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesia
★ Who's Who in The New Testament, Ronals Brownrigg, Oxford University Press, 1993
★ The 12, The Story of Christ's Apostles, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
★ The Search for the Twelve Apostles, William Steuart McBirnie, Ph. D. Tyndale Pp183-194.
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