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- From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: Question about Joseph
- Message-ID: <Jan.27.00.19.25.1993.2681@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:19:27 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- JEFF@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (Jeff Brooks) writes:
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- >If the "brothers of Jesus" were his younger brothers, one would still
- >have to explaing the SHOCKING (at the time) lack of respect shown
- >when these younger brothers advised their older brother what to do!
- >Based as much on that as on the Passion scene, I have to conclude that
- >the brothers of Jesus were, strictly speaking, his cousins or other,
- >older male relatives.
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- It doesn't seem shocking that they would try to tell their older brother
- what to do -- they thought (at the time) that he was loony.
- --
- Jon Reid j-reid@uiuc.edu GEnie: THE.REIDS
- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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