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Figure Christianity
Mary of Bethany
Figure described in the Gospel of John; sister of Lazarus and Martha, living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem
- Traditionally until 1st century 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.
Family
The family of Mary of Bethany
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 · 2
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 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.
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Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Mary of Bethany connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is part of Martha and Mary two sisters in the Bible
- is part of Martha, Mary and Lazarus three siblings in Bethany
- is part of New Testament people named Mary women named Mary in the New Testament: includes Mary, mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazraus; Mary, mother of James the younger; Mary mother of John Mark; Mary of Rome
Recorded events and days 3
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
11 statements on this record
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 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.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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