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|txtha=indeclinable, and [[Μαρία]], Μαρίας, ἡ (מִרְיָם '[[obstinacy]],' '[[rebelliousness]]'; the [[well-known]] [[proper]] [[name]] of the [[sister]] of Moses; in the Targums מַרְיָם; cf. Delitzsch, Zeitschr. f. luth. Theol. for 1877, p. 2 (Maria is a [[good]] Latin [[name]] [[also]])), Mary. The women of [[this]] [[name]] mentioned in the N. T. are the [[following]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[mother]] of Jesus Christ, the [[wife]] of Joseph; her [[name]] is written [[Μαρία]] (in an [[oblique]] [[case]]) in R G L); Μαριάμ L marginal [[reading]] [[Μαρία]])); T Tr WH); the [[reading]] varies [[between]] the [[two]] forms in WH [[text]] Μαρίαν); L T Tr WH [[text]] [[Μαρία]]); so [[where]] the [[other]] women of [[this]] [[name]] are mentioned, ([[see]] Tdf. Proleg., p. 116, [[where]] it appears [[that]] in his [[text]] the genitive is [[always]] ([[seven]] times) Μαρίας; the nominative in Mark [[always]] ([[seven]] times) [[Μαρία]]; [[that]] in John Μαριάμ occurs [[eleven]] times; [[Μαρία]] (or Μαρίαν) [[only]] [[three]] times, etc.; for the facts [[respecting]] the manuscripts, [[see]] (Tdf. as [[above]] and) WH s Appendix, p. 156); cf. Buttmann, 17 (15).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> Mary Magdalene (a [[native]] of Magdala): [[Ἰάκωβος]], 2). There are [[some]], [[indeed]], [[who]], [[thinking]] it [[improbable]] [[that]] [[there]] were [[two]] [[living]] sisters of the [[name]] of Mary (the [[common]] [[opinion]]), [[suppose]] [[that]] [[not]] [[three]] [[but]] [[four]] women are enumerated in [[ἀδελφή]] τῆς μητρός Ἰησοῦ designates Salome, the [[wife]] of Zebedee; so [[especially]] Wieseler in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1840, p. 648ff, (cf. Lightfoot s Commentary on Galatians , Diasert. ii., [[especially]], pp. 255f, 264) [[with]] whom Lücke, Meyer, Ewald and others [[agree]]; in opposed to [[them]] cf. Grimm in Ersch and Gruber's Encykl. [[sect]]. 2vol. xxii., p. 1f. In [[fact]], instances are [[not]] [[lacking]] [[among]] the Jews of [[two]] [[living]] brothers of the [[same]] [[name]], e. g. Onias, in Josephus, Antiquities 12,5, 1; [[Herod]], sons of [[Herod]] the Great, [[one]] by Mariamne, the [[other]] by [[Cleopatra]] of [[Jerusalem]], Josephus, Antiquities 17,1, 3; b. j. 1,28, 4; (cf. B. D., [[under]] the [[phrase]], Mary of Cleophas; Lightfoot as [[above]], p. 264).<br /><b class="num">4.</b> the [[sister]] of Lazarus and Martha: Romans 16:6.

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