Figure Christianity
James the Just
Iacobus Iustus la יעקב הצדיק he
Jewish bishop of Jerusalem figure in Early Christianity
- Child of Saint Joseph
- Dated 1st century CE – 62 CE
- Recognised as Saint
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
- until 62 CE Judeo-Christian Bishop of Jerusalem Number 1 in the sequence Succeeded by Simeon of Jerusalem
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Family
The family of James the Just
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 9
Kinship in an account 2
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 7
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Alphaeus human biblical figure in Gospel of Luke:6:15, biblical character, father of James the Apostle
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child of (mother) Mary mother of Jesus Christ -
child of (mother) Mary of Clopas one of the women present at the crucifixion of Jesus -
child of (father) Saint Joseph Christian saint; husband of Mary and father of Jesus - parent of (father) Justus of Jerusalem third "bishop" of Jerusalem, leader of the christian movement
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sibling of historical Jesus Jesus as a historical person -
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sibling of Jesus Christ central figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 2
James the Just Jewish bishop of Jerusalem figure in Early Christianity Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Connections
How James the Just connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 2
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
17 statements on this record
- 6 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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