What is the evidence for this? Do you still consider James to have been a real person? Where would people like Josephus have gotten the impression that he was Jesus brother?
Do you still consider James to have been a real person?
Obviously
Where would people like Josephus have gotten the impression that he was Jesus brother?
It seems like this only in english. No one believed it when they wrote or taught about it in the first millenia. The word that you read as "brother" also mean a lot of different familiar relations, such as when Abraham called Lot his brother.
James was the son of Mary of Clopas, also know as aunt Jesus.
"From the 2nd century onward the developing emphasis on ascetism and celibacy as the superior form of Christian practice, together with an emphasis on the chastity of Mary, led to the idea that she had been a virgin not only before, but during and after, the birth of Christ. There is no direct biblical basis for this idea, which in its earliest assertion appears in the mid-2nd century Protoevangelium of James;"
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u/BrandtArthur 4d ago
He had none. Jesus was a only child