Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox doctrine both reject the possibility of any siblings of Jesus through Mary. Note: I have been careful to frame the question in Protestant Christian terms. It therefore seems much more likely that a simple reference to 'James' would mean the latter, who would have been well known in the early Church to whom this letter is addressed.Īccording to the New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Roman Catholic teaching agrees that the claimed authorship is Judas, brother of James the Just, but holds that the letter is both late and pseudonymous (written later, and by an unknown author who used Jude's name). (and no brother other than John is ever mentioned), while James the Just was the leader of the Christian Church at Jerusalem. But which James? James the son of Zebedee was martyred by Herod Agrippa in 44 A.D. In verse one he describes himself as 'brother of James'. A majority of Protestant Christian scholars believe that the author of Jude was the younger brother of James the Just.
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