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Jude

Another Brother of Jesus

By Ben Witherington III

When Jesus preaches in his hometown synagogue, the locals are astounded. “Where did this man get all this? … Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?” (Mark 6:3). Readers of BR (and especially of its sister magazine Biblical Archaeology Review) have recently learned quite a bit about Jesus’ brother James, who assumed control of the Jerusalem church after Jesus died.1 But what do we know about the other brothers—say, Judas, or Jude, as he is more commonly known? Jude is named quite clearly as Jesus’ brother […]

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Endnotes

1.

See Ben Witherington III, “Bringing James Out of the Shadows,” and Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “Where Was James Buried?” in BR 19:03.

2.

Richard Bauckham “Jude, Epistle of,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3, pp. 1098–1103, esp. p. 1101.

3.

Quoted in Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.7.14.

4.

William Brosend, James and Jude (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004), p. 6.

5.

See Bauckham, “The Letter of Jude: An Account of Research,” ANRW 2/25/5 (1988), pp. 3791–3826.

6.

See Bauckham, “Jude,” pp. 1099–1100.

7.

This material will appear in a fuller form in my forthcoming book, The Inner Circle of Jesus (Harper, 2006), dealing with Mary, the Beloved Disciple, Peter, James, Jude and Paul.