[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Nothing of any consequence to suggest Joe was older. Got it.

Those probably weren't even the parents' names anyway, and it doesn't
matter if they were Mary and Joseph or Ernestine and Ernest.

Neither of them shows up very much. Neither is of any importance in terms
of the faith.  Satan, perhaps shows up less often, but he's not a person or
demigod, but a literary device, so no surprise there.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 1/30/16 3:29 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Is there anything that speaks to Joe's age?  I'm not aware that there is.
>>
>> One can say he has left the building by the time JC is getting on the
>> road,
>> but as we all know, you can't make a strong argument from silence, unless
>> it supports your point of view.   Mary hardly ever shows up either. Just
>> sayin'
>>
>
> Not in the Bible, but remember that there were a lot of documents floating
> around in the first few centuries that didn't make the cut, because they
> weren't Apostolic.  One of them, (which reads as quite incredible to me)
> details the Assumption.  Others are about Mary's childhood and birth, and
> various with different details about Jesus' childhood.  They're interesting
> to read, and the people who wrote them might have known _something_, even
> if they weren't Inspired as a whole.
> Some of them are just being dug up now, others were preserved by the
> Church since those very early times.  Go to
> http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
> and scroll all the way down to "Apocrypha" and "Miscellaneous"
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>