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  1. Moonwood

    A Textual Challenge to the “Mary and Joseph Had Later Relations” Position

    Many here — including @Titus, @David in NJ, @Armour of God, @marks, @David Lamb, @sondring7, and @markalan — reject the doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity and instead assert that Mary and Joseph had normal marital relations after the birth of Jesus. The usual arguments are: Marriage is...
  2. Moonwood

    The Repentant Woman, Mary of Bethany, and Mary Magdalene: One Figure?

    1. Opening Thesis The Gospel narratives present three women whose actions, circumstances, and narrative roles overlap in striking ways: The unnamed repentant woman in the house of Simon the Pharisee (Luke 7) Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, in Bethany (Matthew 26; Mark 14; John 11-12)...
  3. Moonwood

    Jesus’s Adelphoi: Scripture and Early Christian Testimony

    There are Christians who assume that because Joseph, Simon, James, and Judas are called Jesus’s adelphoi (“brothers”) in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3, they must have been additional sons of Mary. But once the New Testament’s own data and the earliest Christian testimony are brought back into view...
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