"History of Joseph the Carpenter The History of Joseph the Carpenter (""Historia Josephi Fabri Lignari"") is a compilation of traditions concerning Mary (mother of Jesus), Joseph, and the ""holy family,"" probably composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th or early 7th century, but surviving only in Coptic and Arabic language translation. The text gives support to the doctrine of perpetual virginity of Mary. It is one of the texts within the New Testament apocrypha concerned with the period of Jesus' life before he was 12. The text is framed as an explanation by Jesus on the Mount"
"Saint Joseph Joseph (; ) is a figure in the Gospels who was married to Mary, Jesus' mother, and, in the Christian tradition, was Jesus's foster father. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism, and Methodism. Some differing views are due to theological interpretations versus historical views. In both Catholic and Protestant traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is associated with various feast days. Pope Pius IX declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to"
"man with furled wings) to break off his betrothal, and how he resists that temptation. There are some paintings with him wearing a Jewish hat. Saint Joseph Joseph (; ) is a figure in the Gospels who was married to Mary, Jesus' mother, and, in the Christian tradition, was Jesus's foster father. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism, and Methodism. Some differing views are due to theological interpretations versus historical views. In both Catholic and Protestant traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is"
"Matthias (father of Josephus) Matthias (; 6–70) was a first-century AD Jewish priest at the Temple in Jerusalem and the father of historian Josephus. Matthias came from a wealthy family and through his father he descended from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib, which was the first of the twenty four-orders of Priests in the Temple in Jerusalem. He was the son born to Josephus and his wife, an unnamed Jewish noblewoman. The parents of Matthias were distant relatives. Matthias’ mother was a descendant of Josephus’ paternal great grandfather, Simon Psellus. His paternal grandparents were Matthias Curtus and his unnamed"
"working in wood, stone and metal on a wide variety of jobs. The name ""Joseph"" is found almost exclusively in the genealogies and the infancy narratives. Modern positions on the question of the relationship between Joseph and the Virgin Mary vary. The Eastern Orthodox Church, which names Joseph's first wife as Salome, holds that Joseph was a widower and merely betrothed, but never married, to Mary, and that references to Jesus' ""brothers"" are to children of Joseph and Salome. The position of the Catholic Church, derived from the writings of Saint Jerome, is that Joseph was the husband of Mary,"
"Joseph Joseph is a masculine given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as , Standard Hebrew ""Yossef"", Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ""Yôsēp̄"". The name can be translated from Hebrew ""yosef YHWH"" as signifying ""Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add"". The name appears in the book of Genesis: Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben-Yaakov. In the New Testament there are two others named Joseph: 1) Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus; and, 2) Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in"
"Saint Joseph's dreams Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is visited by an angel of the Lord and receives specific instructions and warnings of impending danger. All four dreams come from the period around the Nativity of Jesus and his early life, between the onset of Mary's pregnancy and the family's return from the Flight to Egypt. They are often distinguished by numbers as ""Joseph's first dream"" and so on. Especially in art history, the first may be referred to as the"
"Saint Joseph of Damascus Saint Joseph of Damascus (May 15, 1793 – July 10, 1860), born Joseph George Haddad Firzli (), was an Orthodox Christian priest and educator who was canonized as a saint in 1993. He is also known as ""Father Joseph"" in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. Father Joseph was born in Beirut on May 15, 1793. He was the son of George MeHanna Haddad Firzli, a Lebanese craftsman of Rûm Antiochite-Byzantine descent. He was ordained a priest in 1817 for the Diocese of Damascus and served as director of the Patriarchal School in Damascus 1836–1860: under"
"a number of ways; one possibility is that Matthew's genealogy traces Jesus' legal descent, according to Jewish law, through Joseph; while Luke's genealogy traces his actual physical descent through Mary, In the Gospels, Joseph's occupation is mentioned only once. The Gospel of Matthew asks about Jesus: Joseph's description as a """"tekton"""" (τέκτων) has been traditionally translated into English as ""carpenter"", but is a rather general word (from the same root that gives us ""technical"" and ""technology"") that could cover makers of objects in various materials. The Greek term evokes an artisan with wood in general, or an artisan in iron"
"Joseph became the father of James and his three brothers (Joses, Simeon, Judah) and two sisters (a Salome and a Mary) or (a Salome and an Anna) with James being the elder sibling. James and his siblings were not children of Mary but were children from a previous marriage. After Joseph's first wife died, many years later when he was eighty, ""he took Mary (mother of Jesus)"". The Epistle of Jude has been attributed to him, on the basis of the heading ""Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James"" () where ""brother of James"" is taken as"
"the occupation of Jesus. The term is also used in the Gospel of Matthew in relation to Jesus' adoptive father Joseph. In modern scholarship, the word has sometimes been re-interpreted from the traditional meaning of carpenter and has sometimes been translated as craftsman, as the meaning of builder is implied, but can be applied to both wood-work and stone masonry. In the Septuagint the Greek noun ""tektōn"" either stands for the generic Hebrew noun ""kharash"" (חרש), ""craftsman,"" (as Isaiah 41:7) or ""tekton xylon"" (τέκτων ξύλον) as a word-for-word rendering of ""kharash-'etsim"" (חָרַשׁ עֵצִים) ""craftsman of woods."" (as Isaiah 44:13). The"
"Josephus (grandfather of Josephus) Josephus (; flourished 1st century BC and 1st century, born about 30 BC) was an ethnic Jew living in Jerusalem. Josephus was the son born to Matthias Curtus and his unnamed Jewish wife. He came from a wealthy family and through his father he descended from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib, which was the first of the twenty four-orders of Priests in the Temple in Jerusalem. His paternal grandparents were Matthias Ephlias and the daughter of the High Priest Jonathon. Jonathon may have been Alexander Jannaeus, the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed Judea"
"Joseph Costa (evangelist) Joseph Massoud Costa (June 7, 1931 in Beirut, Lebanon – May 8, 1989) was a Lebanese evangelical preacher. Joseph, born ""Yousef"", was the third of six children, born to Massoud Yousef Costa and Saada Simaan Ghantous. Costa's father was a gambler who experienced frequent finanial difficulties, and as a teenager Costa worked as a tailor, creating custom-made clothing to help his family financially. In 1956, he believed he was called to the ministry. With the help of James Ragland, a Southern Baptist missionary working in Lebanon at the time, he planted a church in the Ras Beirut"
"was not his father; yet Joseph's paternity was essential to establish Jesus' Davidic descent. The theological situation was complicated by the gospel references to Jesus' ""brothers and sisters"" (repeated in Paul, where James is called the ""brother of Christ""), and by the fact that Jesus was described unambiguously by John and Mark as ""Joseph's son"" and ""the carpenter's son."" From the 2nd century to the 5th writers tried to explain how Jesus could be simultaneously the ""son of God"" and the ""son of Joseph"". The first to offer a solution was the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, written about 150 AD."
"report, Joseph's natural father was Jacob son of Matthan, as given in Matthew, while his legal father was Eli son of Melchi (""sic""), as given in Luke. It has been questioned, however, whether levirate marriages actually occurred among uterine brothers; they are expressly excluded in the Halakhah Beth Hillel but permitted by Shammai. According to Jesuit theologian Anthony Maas, the question proposed to Jesus by the Sadducees in all three Synoptic Gospels regarding a woman with seven levirate husbands suggests that this law was observed at the time of Christ. Julius Africanus, explaining the origin of Joseph from levirate marriage,"
"mother, of whom he begat Heli. Therefore Jacob and Heli became brothers on tile mother's side, Jacob being of the tribe of Solomon and Heli of the tribe of Nathan. Then Heli of the tribe of Nathan died childless, and Jacob his brother, of the tribe of Solomon, took his wife and raised up seed to his brother and begat Joseph. Joseph, therefore, is by nature the son of Jacob, of the line of Solomon, but by law he is the son of Heli of the line of Nathan."" Modern scholarship tends to see the genealogies of Jesus as theological"
"two decades after Paul, also does not mention Jesus' father. Joseph first appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, both dating from around 80–90 AD. The issue of reconciling the two accounts has been the subject of debate. Like the two differing genealogies, the infancy narratives appear only in Matthew and Luke and take different approaches to reconciling the requirement that the Messiah be born in Bethlehem with the tradition that Jesus in fact came from Nazareth. In Matthew, Joseph obeys the direction of an angel to marry Mary. Following the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Joseph is told"
"settling in Toronto. His father worked as a peddler to support his wife and seven children. Joseph dropped out of Landsdowne Public School after two years, at the age of 13, in order to work in sweatshops full-time for $3 a week to help support the family but continued to study at night to be a rabbi in the Orthodox tradition. His industrial experience led him to labour activism, particularly in the garment workers union where he fought for improved wages and conditions. At age 16, he informed his traditionalist parents that he was abandoning Talmudic studies in favour of"
"her two sons who will have conflicts. ""Shown on the rooftop."" The Story of Joseph (Panel) <br> Joseph’s father's name was Jacob and they lived in Canaan. Joseph was the second youngest of 11 brothers and his father spent more time with him because of it. Jacob had given Joseph a special robe, which his brothers became envious of. Joseph had two dreams he told his brothers about one where they were all killing him and the other was where they were bowing to him. The were enraged and were planning on killing him but sold him to slavery and"
"of this chapter. Most scholars and translations thus have Joseph as the namer. Legally either parent could name the child. Robert H. Gundry believes that having Joseph naming Jesus is a clear demonstration of Jesus' legal status as his son, and thus as an heir of King David, a continuation of the argument made by the genealogy. Matthew 1:25 Matthew 1:25 is the twenty-fifth and last verse of the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Joseph has awakened from a dream in which an angel gave him instructions about the birth of Jesus. He has"
"in Greek as"" Iōsēpos"" (Ιώσηπος), son of Matthias, an ethnic Jewish priest. He was the second-born son of Matthias. His older full-blooded brother was also called Matthias. Their mother was an aristocratic woman who descended from the royal and formerly ruling Hasmonean dynasty. Josephus's paternal grandparents were Josephus and his wife—an unnamed Hebrew noblewoman, distant relatives of each other and direct descendants of Simon Psellus. Josephus's family was wealthy. He descended through his father from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib, which was the first of the 24 orders of priests in the Temple in Jerusalem. Josephus was a descendant"
"to the event and may be the more dependable reporter..."" John the Dwarf Saint John the Dwarf (Greek: Ιωάννης Κολοβός; Arabic: ابو يحنّس القصير (Abū) Yuḥannis al-Qaṣīr c. 339 – c. 405), also called Saint John Colobus, Saint John Kolobos or Abba John the Dwarf, was an Egyptian Desert Father of the early Christian church. John the Dwarf was born in the town of Thebes in Egypt to poor Christian parents. At the age of eighteen, he and an elder brother, moved to the desert of Scetes where he became a disciple of Saint Pambo and a good friend of"
"Joachim Joachim (; ""he whom Yahweh has set up"", ""Yəhôyāqîm"", Greek Ἰωακείμ ""Iōākeím"") was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, according to the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible. His feast day is 26 July. According to tradition, Saint Anne was born in Bethlehem, and married Joachim of Nazareth, both descendants of David. In the Protoevangelium of James, Joachim is described as a rich and pious man, who regularly gave"
"according to the law, in conferring a name upon him, and in presenting him in the Temple at the proscribed time. The growth of Jesus ""in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man"" (Lk 2:52) took place within the Holy Family under the eyes of Joseph, who had the important task of ""raising"" Jesus, that is, feeding, clothing and educating him in the Law and in a trade, in keeping with the duties of a father. ...For his part, Jesus ""was obedient to them"" (Lk 2:51), respectfully returning the affection of his 'parents'. In this way"
"warned Joseph to flee to Egypt with baby Jesus. After Herod dies, the angel directs them back to Nazareth, where Jesus grows up in Joseph's carpenter shop. Jesus learns His earthly father Joseph's business, but Joseph reminds Him that he is God's son (""Little Yeshua""). Jesus grows up, and his cousin, John the Baptist, calls for sinners to repent and be baptized in the Jordan River (""The Kingdom of Heaven/One Voice""§). Jesus comes to John to be baptized, and though John bows before Jesus and insists that it is not right for him to baptize Jesus, Jesus asks him to"
"Jesse Jesse , or Yishai (, meaning ""King"" or ""God exists"" or ""God's gift""; ""Eshai""; ""Iessai""; ; ""Yassa"") is a figure described in the Bible as the father of David, who became the king of the Israelites. His son David is sometimes called simply ""Son of Jesse"" (""Ben Yishai""). The role as both father of King David and ancestor of Christ has been used in various depictions in art, e.g. as the Tree of Jesse or in hymns like Behold, a Branch is growing. According to the Bible, Jesse was the son of Obed and the grandson of Ruth and"
"Joseph (Genesis) Joseph (; meaning ""Increase"", ""Yosef"" ""Yôsēp̄""; ""Yūsuf"" or ""Yūsif""; ""Iōsēph"") is an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis. Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, he rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt. The composition of the story can be dated to the period between the 7th century BCE and the third quarter of the 5th century BCE, which is roughly the period to which scholars date the Book of Genesis. In Rabbinic tradition, Joseph"
"Joseph was born, his mother Lucy, prayed in a grove about her husband's refusal to attend church and later said she had had a dream-vision, which she interpreted as a prophecy that Joseph Sr. would later accept the ""pure and undefiled Gospel of the Son of God."" According to Lucy, Joseph Smith Sr. also had seven visions between 1811 and 1819, coming at a time when he was ""much excited upon the subject of religion."" These visions confirmed in his mind the correctness of his refusal to join any organized church and led him to believe that he would be"
"Jesus is recounted in the New Testament of the Bible, one of the bedrock texts of Western Civilisation. According to the New Testament, Jesus was raised as the son of the Nazarenes Mary (called the ""Blessed Virgin"" and ""Mother of God"") and her husband Saint Joseph (a carpenter). Jesus' birth is commemorated in the festival of Christmas. Jesus learned the texts of the Hebrew Bible and like his contemporary John the Baptist, became an influential wandering preacher. He gathered Twelve Disciples to assist in his work. He was a persuasive teller of parables and moral philosopher. In orations such as"
"the phrase ""son of <father's name>"", or the individual's hometown. Thus, in the New Testament, Jesus is commonly referred to as ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (e.g., Mark 10:47). Jesus' neighbors in Nazareth refer to him as ""the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon"" (Mark 6:3), ""the carpenter's son"" (Matthew 13:55), or ""Joseph's son"" (Luke 4:22). In John, the disciple Philip refers to him as ""Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth"" (John 1:45). The name ""Jesus"" is derived from the Latin ""Iesus"", a transliteration of the Greek (""""). The Greek form is a"
"crowned by thorns. Genesis Chapters 37-50 has the story of Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph is commonly cited as a Christ type. Joseph is a very special son to his father. From his father’s perspective, Joseph dies and then comes back to life as the ruler of Egypt. Joseph’s brothers deceive their father by dipping his coat in the blood of a sacrificed goat (Genesis 37:31). Later, Joseph’s father finds that Joseph is alive and is the ruler of Egypt who saves the world from a great famine. Other parallels between Joseph and Jesus include: Moses, like Joseph and Jonah,"
"an angel, who tells her that she will become the mother of the Messiah, whom she shall name Jesus. Mary is then faced with the responsibility of impending motherhood as well as proving to Joseph that she has not betrayed him. Meanwhile, Mary's aunt Elizabeth is also pregnant (with John the Baptist). After telling her parents and Joseph the truth, Mary's family arranges for her to come to Jerusalem to stay with Zechariah and Elizabeth temporarily. Joseph remains behind in Galilee, tormented by jealousy, until an angel visits him. Joseph's father Jacob dies and, afterwards, Joseph goes to Mary as"
"Genealogy of Jesus The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam. The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point. Matthew has twenty-seven generations from David to Joseph, whereas Luke has forty-two, with almost no overlap between the names on the two lists.⁠ Notably, the two accounts also disagree on who Joseph's father was: Matthew says he was Jacob, while Luke says he was Heli. Traditional Christian scholars (starting with"