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title="Second Epistle of Clement">2 Clement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ignatius_of_Antioch#Epistles" title="Ignatius of Antioch">Epistles of Ignatius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistle_of_Polycarp_to_the_Philippians" title="Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians">Polycarp to the Philippians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martyrdom_of_Polycarp" title="Martyrdom of Polycarp">Martyrdom of Polycarp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didache" title="Didache">Didache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistle_of_Barnabas" title="Epistle of Barnabas">Barnabas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistle_to_Diognetus" title="Epistle to Diognetus">Diognetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shepherd_of_Hermas" title="The Shepherd of Hermas">The Shepherd of Hermas</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddddff;font-size:105%;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Gospels#Apocrypha_and_pseudepigrapha" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Gospels">Apocryphal gospels</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Christian_gospels" title="Jewish–Christian gospels">Jewish–Christian gospels</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Ebionites" title="Gospel of the Ebionites">Ebionites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Hebrews" title="Gospel of the Hebrews">Hebrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Nazarenes" title="Gospel of the Nazarenes">Nazarenes</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Infancy_gospels" title="Infancy gospels">Infancy gospels</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_James" title="Gospel of James">James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Infancy Gospel of Thomas">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_Infancy_Gospel" title="Syriac Infancy Gospel">Syriac</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Nicodemus" title="Gospel of Nicodemus">Nicodemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Peter" title="Gospel of Peter">Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas" title="Gospel of Barnabas">Barnabas</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Lost gospels</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Bartholomew" title="Gospel of Bartholomew">Bartholomew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthias" title="Gospel of Matthias">Matthias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Cerinthus" title="Gospel of Cerinthus">Cerinthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Basilides" title="Gospel of Basilides">Basilides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mani" title="Gospel of Mani">Mani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Hebrews" title="Gospel of the Hebrews">Gospel of the Hebrews</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddddff;font-size:105%;;color: 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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). The text bears witness to the belief in the <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_virginity" class="mw-redirect" title="Perpetual virginity">perpetual virginity</a> of Mary. </p><p>It is one of the texts within the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha" title="New Testament apocrypha">New Testament apocrypha</a> concerned with the period of Jesus' life before he was 12. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The text is framed as an explanation by <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a> concerning the life of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph" title="Saint Joseph">Joseph</a>, his stepfather. Agreeing with Mary's <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_virginity_of_Mary" title="Perpetual virginity of Mary">continued virginity</a>, the text proclaims that Joseph had four sons (<a href="/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus" title="Brothers of Jesus">Judas, Justus, James, and Simon</a>) and two daughters (Assia and Lydia) by a previous marriage. </p><p>After this basic background, the text proceeds to paraphrase the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_James" title="Gospel of James">Gospel of James</a>, stopping at the point of Jesus' birth. The text states that Joseph was miraculously blessed with mental and physical youth, dying at the age of 111. His oldest sons (Justus and Simon) get married and have children, and likewise his two daughters get married and live in their own houses. </p><p>Joseph's death takes up a substantial portion of the text. He first lets out a significant prayer, including in his last words a series of lamentations about his carnal sins. About 50% of the work is an extension of the death scene, in which the angel of death, as well as the archangels <a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Michael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a>, appear to him. At the conclusion of the text, Jesus affirms that Mary remained a virgin throughout her days by addressing her as "my mother, virgin undefiled." </p><p>The text says "And the holy apostles have preserved this conversation, and have left it written down in the library at Jerusalem." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Age_and_surviving_versions">Age and surviving versions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Age and surviving versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some information indicates the text was written in Egypt in the fifth century. Two versions survive, one in <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic</a>, the other in <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>, with the Coptic version likely being the original. Much of the text is based on material in the Gospel of James. </p><p>There exists also <a href="/wiki/Ethiopic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopic language">Ethiopic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a> manuscripts.<sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth_1985-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first English translation of the Ethiopic manuscript was published by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Alfred_Wallis_Budge" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge">E. A. W. Budge</a> in 1896 (<i>The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great</i>, vol. 2, pp. 555-584), while the first English translation of the Greek manuscript was published by <a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_Craigie" class="mw-redirect" title="William Alexander Craigie">W. A. Craigie</a> (<i>The Narrative of Zosimus Concerning the Life of the Blessed</i>, ANF 10, pp. 220-224).<sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth_1985-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A translation of the Syriac manuscript into French was edited by <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Nau" title="François Nau">François Nau</a> in 1899 (<i>Légende inédite des fils de Jonadab, fils de Réchab, et les Îles fortunées</i>, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revue_s%C3%A9mitique&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Revue sémitique (page does not exist)">Revue sémitique</a></i>, pp, 136-146).<sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth_1985-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first translation of the Syriac manuscript into English has been published by <a href="/wiki/James_H._Charlesworth" title="James H. Charlesworth">James H. Charlesworth</a> in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth_1985-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Correlation_with_third-century_apocryphon">Correlation with third-century apocryphon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Correlation with third-century apocryphon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The early third-century apocryphal "<a href="/wiki/First_Apocalypse_of_James" title="First Apocalypse of James">First Apocalypse of James</a>" from the <a href="/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library" title="Nag Hammadi library">Nag Hammadi library</a> states: Jesus speaking to James, "For not without reason have I called you my brother, although you are not my brother materially."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This adds an additional record of Mary's relationship to Jesus' brothers, allowing the explanation of her perpetual virginity. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Gospels" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Gospels">List of Gospels</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bart D. Ehrman, Zlatko Pleše <i>The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations</i> Oxford University Press, US 2011 p 158, quote "In its present form, the History of Joseph the Carpenter is thus a compilation of various traditions concerning Mary and the "holy family," most likely composed in Byzantine Egypt in the late sixth or early seventh century."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">G. T. Zervos, <i>History of Joseph (prior to the Fourth Century A.D.). A New Translation and Introduction</i>, in <a href="/wiki/James_H._Charlesworth" title="James H. Charlesworth">James H. Charlesworth</a> (1985), <i>The Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha</i>, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., Volume 2, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-09630-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-09630-5">0-385-09630-5</a> (Vol. 1), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-18813-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-18813-7">0-385-18813-7</a> (Vol. 2), pp. 467-468. Quote: "The History of Joseph is partially extant on several Greek papyrus fragments which are preserved in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>; and the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>. Descriptions and complete transcriptions of the two fragments belonging to the British Museum have been published in Milne's <i>Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum</i> (pp. 187-190) under numbers 226 and 227 (hereafter referred as A and B, respectively). Milne's transcription has been reproduced in A.-M. Deni's <i>Fragmenta Pseudoepigrapharum Quae Sunt Graeca</i>(PVTG 3; Leiden, 1970; pp. 235f.). Facsimiles of A verso and B recto may be found in <a href="/wiki/Frederic_George_Kenyon" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederic George Kenyon">F. G. Kenyon</a>'s <i>Greek Papyri in the British Museum</i> (London, 1893; vo0l. 1, pp. 225, 227, under numbers 113 [13a] and 113 [12b]. [...] Transcriptions of three more papyrus fragments belonging to the History of Joseph and, in all probability, to the same manuscript of this document as A and B have been published by <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Martin_Lindsay" class="mw-redirect" title="Wallace Martin Lindsay">W. M. Lindsay</a> <i>The Athenaeum</i> (Number 3019; Sept 5, 1885; p. 304). [...] <i>The fact that they are written in the same scripts and have a common place of origin (<a href="/wiki/Faiyum_Oasis" title="Faiyum Oasis">Fayum of Egypt</a>) support the possibility that fragments A, B, C, D, and E originally belonged to the same manuscript.</i> A single unpublished papyrus fragment, which represents a different copy of our document, is preserved in the Louvre under catalogue number E. 7738a (hereafter F). [...] F, for the most part, does not preserve enough writing to add significantly to the text of our document. However, the recto of this fragment contains some lines which occur also in B recto and can therefore be used to correct and supplement the text of that document.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Charlesworth_1985-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth_1985_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/James_H._Charlesworth" title="James H. Charlesworth">James H. Charlesworth</a> (1985), <i>The Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha</i>, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., Volume 2, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-09630-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-09630-5">0-385-09630-5</a> (Vol. 1), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-18813-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-18813-7">0-385-18813-7</a> (Vol. 2), pp. 443-444. Quote: "Significant variants [are] in B (Syr. 235 [<i>olim</i> Ancien fonds 144] of the <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" title="Bibliothèque nationale de France">Bibliothéque Nationale</a>, of the 13th cent., and of paper), in C (Syr. 234 [<i>olim</i> Ancien fonds 143, Colbert 5137.], also of the Bibliothéque Nationale, of the 13th cent., and of paper), and in D (BM Add. 12174 of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, of the 12th cent., and of <a href="/wiki/Vellum" title="Vellum">vellum</a>)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/1ja.htmlThe">(First) Apocalypse of James</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged January 2020">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; 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