To: EternalVigilance
}Doctor Luke was a Gentile.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wern't most of the apostles Benjamites? I think only Judas was from the tribe of Judah.
While Benjamites joined with Levites to create the Southern Kingdom eventually named Judea, and after that place received the nickname "Jew", the Benjamites were never really friendly with the Judahites. (Neither were the other 10 tribes). After Jesus death I think the Benjamites pretty much went their own way.
136 posted on
04/07/2003 9:49:12 PM PDT by
DensaMensa
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To: DensaMensa
Off the top of my head, I would think James (Christ's brother, not the other son of Zebedee) would be a "Judah-ite", in that his father, Joseph, was of the House of Judah.
138 posted on
04/07/2003 9:51:04 PM PDT by
Gurn
To: DensaMensa
Nah, I think you've got it wrong. Matthew was a Levite, for example.
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