James the Less is a figure of early Christianity.^[1]

In the New Testament, he appears only in connection with his mother Mary in Mark 15:40, Mark 16:1, Matthew 27:56. John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... Mary of Clopas (Greek: Maria he tou Klopa) was one of various Marys named in the New Testament. ...

James the Less is almost universally identified with James, son of Alphaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles´, and through him with James, the brother of Jesus. James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles. ... “Apostle” redirects here. ... Saint James the Just (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew YaÊ¿aqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos, James of Jerusalem, or the Brother of the Lord[1] and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. ...

This identification was convenient as it juxtaposed the two Apostles called James as Maior 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.) In the New Testament, Cleophas is the single English rendering of two men, who are in the Greek originalsCleopas, an abbreviated form of Cleopatros, a commonplace Hellenistic name meaning son of a renowned father, and the other Clopas. Cleopas was one of the two disciples to whom the risen... In the New Testament, Cleophas is the single English rendering of two men, who are in the Greek originalsCleopas, an abbreviated form of Cleopatros, a commonplace Hellenistic name meaning son of a renowned father, and the other Clopas. Cleopas was one of the two disciples to whom the risen...

This identification was almost universally accepted and therefore, tradition knows the Apostle as Saint James the Less. Among the men named James (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), in the New Testament, whose number may be increased by the variety of epithets and euphemisms applied to them, James son of Alphaeus (or Clopas), is called James the Less or the...

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In Mark 15:40 and Matthew 27:56 he is accompanied by a brother called Joses or Joseph. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 385 × 598 pixel Image in higher resolution (680 × 1057 pixel, file size: 147 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): James the Less... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 385 × 598 pixel Image in higher resolution (680 × 1057 pixel, file size: 147 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): James the Less... Joses, in Hebrew, means He that forgives. Joses is one of the brothers of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Mark 6:3 and its parallel passage in Matthew 13:54 - 57. ...

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] Hegesippus (c. ... Eusebius is the name of several significant historical people: Pope Eusebius - Pope in AD 309 - 310. ... In the New Testament, Cleophas is the single English rendering of two men, who are in the Greek originalsCleopas, an abbreviated form of Cleopatros, a commonplace Hellenistic name meaning son of a renowned father, and the other Clopas. Cleopas was one of the two disciples to whom the risen... Simeon of Jerusalem, son of Cleophas was the leader of the church of Jerusalem, sometimes called the Jewish Christians, and according to most Christian traditions the second Bishop of Jerusalem. ... Saint James the Just (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos, James of Jerusalem, or the Brother of the Lord[1] and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. ... In the New Testament, Cleophas is the single English rendering of two men, who are in the Greek originalsCleopas, an abbreviated form of Cleopatros, a commonplace Hellenistic name meaning son of a renowned father, and the other Clopas. Cleopas was one of the two disciples to whom the risen... For other uses, see Saint Joseph (disambiguation). ...

This played into another identification, that of the Apostle James with "James, the brother of the Lord" James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles. ... Saint James the Just (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos, James of Jerusalem, or the Brother of the Lord[1] and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. ...

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

Saint James the Just (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos, James of Jerusalem, or the Brother of the Lord[1] and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. ...

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.