Did Hegesippus break the equation "James brother of Lord = Son of Zebedee"?

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Re: Did Hegesippus break the equation "James brother of Lord = Son of Zebedee"?

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There are a number of James in the NT and they don't 'square' with each other.

See this thread http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/view ... f=3&t=1539
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Re: Did Hegesippus break the equation "James brother of Lord = Son of Zebedee"?

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toejam wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:46 am Where does Hegesippus say James the brother is James son of Zebedee?
Hegesippus couldn't mention "Zebedee" given the absence of an oral tradition about James the Pillar as "James the son of Zebedee" (the name "Zebedee" was probably an invention by Mark). There was an oral tradition about only one James the Pillar and the "Gate of Jesus". The fact the Hegesippus talks about a James called "Gate of Jesus" is evidence in my view that he was alluding to the same James the Pillar known in Mark as "son of Zebedee".

We known that James the Pillar was also the "Gate of Jesus" for two reasons:

1) the johannine words "I am the Gate" are addressed against James the Pillar's claim of being himself the "Gate of Jesus"

2) a Gate is made of two Pillars and there was a diffuse symbology of Hercules/Melkart as bearer of these two Pillars that had to sign the way. The Cyrenaic is also a bearer of the cross/"pillar" and he works ironically as the anti-Peter, to mean that for the Mark's enemies Simon Peter was the true (bearer of the) Pillar: Peter alone as the Pillar pointed the way to follow Jesus.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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