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For questions on "James, son of Zebedee", "James, brother of Jesus", and the author of the Epistle of James, which may all be the same person (traditional Catholic view), two different people (traditional Protestant view), or three different people (view of some scholars).

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James and Jacob are translated as the same name. What were the criteria followed for name tr...

Jacob Jacob is a transliteration of the Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (formal transliteration: yaʿăqob). This labels only one person in the Hebrew Bible: the patriarch also known as Israel, the eponymous ancestor of …
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