Mary is the wife of Cleopas and was one of various Marys named in the Bible. Very little is known about her, except her marriage. It was believed among the early Christians, and is sometimes held today in the Catholic and Orthodox religions, that she was a cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Her children are Jesus's relatives that according to the New Testament are called his "brothers" and "sisters." This belief been surrounded with much speculation and doubt in the 20th century. The defenders of the belief note that the writers in the Aramaic did not have a specific word for cousins. 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... Mary is a popular name worldwide originally derived from the ancient Egyptian word Mery meaning beloved, and is the most popular name for a female in the United States. ... The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ... Separate articles treat Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox Judaism. ... In Christianity and Islam, Mary (Judæo-Aramaic מרים Maryām Bitter; Septuagint Greek Μαριαμ, Mariam, Μαρια, Maria; Arabic: Maryem, مريم) is the mother of Jesus and the betrothed of Joseph. ... The neutrality and accuracy of this article are disputed. ... The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a four-thousand year history. ...