Talk:Brothers of Jesus/Sources

This page is for archiving citations from primary sources until they can be moved to Wikisource. Ovadyah 13:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Historical accounts of the Desposyni
Hegesippus (c.110-c.180) wrote five books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church. They are lost, but a few fragments are quoted by Eusebius in Historia Ecclesiae, 3.20. Among them is the following relation, ascribed to the reign of Domitian (81-96):

In "The Ecclesiastical History", Eusebius records an account by Sextus Julius Africanus recorded the following concerning the family: