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What happened to Joseph (husband of Mary)?
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<blockquote data-quote="hedrick" data-source="post: 59240564" data-attributes="member: 239032"><p>It's pretty clear why Joseph isn't emphasized. In the NT it's because very little is said about Jesus' early days. Most of it is the story of the virgin birth, where clearly Mary is the major player. Looking at Luke, the only thing other than the virgin birth, including the rest of the birth story, is in Luke 2, and it treats Mary and Joseph equally. By Luke 3 Jesus is an adult, and we assume Joseph is dead.</p><p></p><p>As for Christian tradition, the virgin birth caused most of the attention to be on Mary. The implication seems to be that Jesus wasn't in any normal sense Joseph's son.</p><p></p><p>In reality, it appears that Jesus spent most of his life with both parents. I would assume that in the 1st Cent his father would have mentored him more than his mother. Unless he was a particularly incompetent father, we can no doubt see his influence in the adult Jesus, but it's a bit unfair to him that we don't know more about him. My speculation is that if the virgin birth is literally true, God probably used Joseph's DNA to supply the male half of Joseph's genetic complement. But there's no possible way to verify that. If both halves don't come from humans, it causes problems for Jesus' true humanity, and Joseph would be the obvious source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hedrick, post: 59240564, member: 239032"] It's pretty clear why Joseph isn't emphasized. In the NT it's because very little is said about Jesus' early days. Most of it is the story of the virgin birth, where clearly Mary is the major player. Looking at Luke, the only thing other than the virgin birth, including the rest of the birth story, is in Luke 2, and it treats Mary and Joseph equally. By Luke 3 Jesus is an adult, and we assume Joseph is dead. As for Christian tradition, the virgin birth caused most of the attention to be on Mary. The implication seems to be that Jesus wasn't in any normal sense Joseph's son. In reality, it appears that Jesus spent most of his life with both parents. I would assume that in the 1st Cent his father would have mentored him more than his mother. Unless he was a particularly incompetent father, we can no doubt see his influence in the adult Jesus, but it's a bit unfair to him that we don't know more about him. My speculation is that if the virgin birth is literally true, God probably used Joseph's DNA to supply the male half of Joseph's genetic complement. But there's no possible way to verify that. If both halves don't come from humans, it causes problems for Jesus' true humanity, and Joseph would be the obvious source. [/QUOTE]
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