[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[Sibyl Smirl]

Oh, my, you know so much, to dismiss the Protevangelium of James as 
nothing of any consequence, a writing on which the RCC bases so many of 
its traditions, and which predates some of the canonically Inspired 
books, not to mention all the other ancient documents.  "Ernestine and 
Ernest" have no Hebraic roots at all, while Miriam and Yusuf go back 
even farther than Moses' sister and the progenitor of the two half-tribes.

You know something?  I know the names of quite a few people who lived 
and did their living 150 years ago.  I even know, at third-hand, but 
reliably, what my great-grandfather said when he was first told that 
Abraham Lincoln had been shot.  One of his children was near enough to 
hear the exchange with the neighbor who stopped by with the news, and 
told their siblings, because it was so shocking, and one of the sisters 
told my aunt, her niece, and my aunt told me.  That's really not such a 
long time for people to know things reliably, even if they weren't 
written down in other places.


On 1/31/16 3:14 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> 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.
.......
>
>> 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.
.....
>> 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"



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