Appendix III
Other Sources & Evidence That
Jesus Had Siblings
Encyclopaedia Britannica, under James: One of the Lord’s brethren.
The Bible: In Matthew XII: 47 and Mark VI: 3 we read of James who, together with Joses, Judas and Simon was a ‘brother’ of the Lord. The Epithanian view is that Jesus’ brothers and sisters were born after the birth of Jesus.
The Helvidian theory as propounded by Helvidius and apparently accepted by Tertullian, makes James a brother of the Lord, as truly as Mary was his mother. This seems to be more in keeping with the Gospels (see W. Patrick James the Brother of the Lord 1906, page 5).
James the brother of Jesus who became leader of the Church in Jerusalem. The Lion Handbook of the Bible, page 666, James 1:3 (Lion Publishing). He was traditionally the author of the Epistle of the New Testament which bears his name (see Epistle of James).
According to Hegesippus (see Eus H.E. 11 23) he was a Nazarite and because of his eminent righteousness was called ‘Just’ and ‘Oblias’. So great was his influence with the people that he was appealed to by the scribes and Pharisees for a true (as they hoped) unfavourable judgement about the Messiahship of Christ. But from a pinnacle of the temple he made public confession of his faith and was seized by the temple priests, hurled to the ground and murdered.
A detailed account of this event is covered on pages 99 to 100 under the heading The Martyrdom of James ‘ the Lord’s Brother’ in Eusabius’ The History of the Church, published by Penguin Classics in 1965, translation by G. A. Williamson. This was immediately before the Roman Siege. Deuteronomy 20.16.18 Passage refers to alleged order from the God of the Jews to commit genocide against the Canaanites.
Josephus (Antiq. xx 911) tells that it was by the order of Ananus the high priest that James was put to death. Josephus’ narrative gives the idea of some sort of judicial examination, for he says that James and some others were brought before an assembly of judges, by whom they were condemned and delivered to be stoned to death.
Josephus is also cited by Eusabius (H.E. ii 23) to the effect that the miseries of the siege of Jerusalem which was led by Vespasian, were due to divine vengeance for the murder of James. According to Eusabius (H.E. vii 19), his Episcopal chair was still shown at Jerusalem.
St. Paul also corroborates the existence of James as the brother of Christ in Galatians 1:20 on making a trip to Jerusalem. “I saw only James, the brother of the Lord”.
A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature edited by Henry Wace, DD, Dean of Canterbury and William C Piercy, MA, Dean and Chaplain of Whitelands College SW, published by John Murray 1911. See page 436 an account by Hegesippus of James the brother of Jesus being brought before Ananus the high priest and the assembled judges of the Sanhedrin, accused of blasphemy and stoned to death.
Penguin Classics Eusabius, History of the Church. Introduction page 9, James, the Lord’s brother was the Bishop of Jerusalem.
Encyclopaedia of the Occult by Fred Gittings, Century Hutchinson.
The Later Herods by Stewart Perowne, MA, FSA, Hodder and Stoughton 1958.
The First Century. Emperors, Gods and Everyman, by William Klingaman, BA, PhD, Gould Publishing 1990.
The complete works of Flavius Josephus by William Whiston, M.A., Cambridge, England. T. Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh and New York.
Flavius Josephus by Rev. A. R. Shilleto. M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Whiston’s translation revised. George Bell and Sons, London 1890.
Josephus The Jewish War by G. A. Williamson. Penguin 1959.
Myth, Magic and Morals by Fred Cornwallis Conybeare, M.A., Oxford. Watts & Co., London 1910.
The Satanic Cult by Gerhard Zacharias. George Allan and Unwin 1980.
The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite. Rider 1911.
The Heirarchy of Hell by Lauran Paine. Robert Hale, London 1972.
Myth and Ritual in Christianity by Alan Watts. Thames & Hudson 1954.
The Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Russell Hope Robbins. Spring Books, London 1959; Crown Publishers, New York 1959.
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, J.M. Dent, London 1898.
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