Adelphos News Today

>> that word "brothers" is sort of problematic in the light -- this is this question of dogma driving -- driving interpretation again. so, what we have is the greek word "adelphos," which the primary meaning is "brothers." anybody looking at that text and seeing, "are these not the adelphoi of jesus?" would say, "are these not the brothers of jesus?" >> the apocryphal gospels tried to clear up the mystery by presenting the brothers and sisters of jesus as simply the children of joseph from a fir...