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James, son of Zebedee. John, son of Zebedee. Philip. Bartholomew also known as "Nathanael". Thomas also known as "Doubting Thomas". Matthew also known as "Levi". James, son of Alphaeus. Judas, son of James (a.k.a. Thaddeus or Lebbaeus) Simon the Zealot.
According to the Bible, Jesse was the son of Obed and the grandson of Ruth and of Boaz. He lived in Bethlehem, in Judah, and was of the Tribe of Judah, he was a farmer, breeder and owner of sheep. He was a prominent resident of the town of Bethlehem. [4] Jesse is important in Judaism because he was the father of the most famous King of Israel.
[95] [97] English assumes that Zechariah's ministry in the Temple, as described in Luke 1:5–23, [98] took place on Yom Kippur the year before Jesus's birth; he then traces the narrative in the Gospel of Luke through the Annunciation and the birth of John the Baptist to conclude that Jesus was born on 25 December. [95]
Jerome is the second-most voluminous writer – after Augustine of Hippo (354–430) – in ancient Latin Christianity. The Catholic Church recognizes him as the patron saint of translators, librarians, and encyclopedists. [41] Jerome translated many biblical texts into Latin from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth". Later extra-biblical traditions identified Nimrod as the ruler who commissioned the construction of the Tower of Babel or Jacob's Ladder based on the Biblical dream of Jacob in Genesis 28:11–19, which led to his reputation as a king who ...
Jethro and Moses (watercolor circa 1900 by James Tissot). In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ θ r oʊ /; Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Modern: Yītrō, Tiberian: Yīṯrō, lit.. "His Excellence/Posterity"; Arabic: يثرون, romanized: Yaṯrūn) was Moses' father-in-law, a Kenite shepherd and priest of Midian, sometimes called Reuel (or Raguel)
Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [ 2][ a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...
A less scientific metric is the sheer volume of famous people born on this date. Celebrities born on September 9. Four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (1980) and three-time Razzie winner Adam ...