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Re: Islamic rebuttal of anti attacks..

Posted by whitetriangle on 2008-October-09 22:03:45 EDT, Thursday
In reply to Islamic rebuttal of anti attacks.. posted by Goethe on 2008-October-08 02:59:44 EDT, Wednesday
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This is an interesting thread. Joseph was reckoned to about 40, though in another place it names him as being ninety!

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It will not be without interest to recall here, unreliable though they are, the lengthy stories concerning St. Joseph's marriage contained in the apocryphal writings. When forty years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, "the Lord's brother"). A year after his wife's death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place.

http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37462

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm

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