ThepseudepigraphicalBook of Jubilees provides names for a host of otherwise unnamed biblical characters, including wives for most of theantediluvianpatriarchs. The last of these isNoah's wife, to whom it gives the name ofEmzara. Other Jewish traditional sources contain many different names for Noah's wife.
The Book of Jubilees says that Awan wasAdam and Eve's first daughter. Their second daughter Azura marriedSeth. For many of the early wives in the series,Jubilees notes that the patriarchs married their sisters.
TheCave of Treasures and the earlierKitab al-Magall (part ofClementine literature) name entirely different women as the wives of the patriarchs, with considerable variations among the extant copies.
The Muslim historianIbn Ishaq (c. 750), as cited inal-Tabari (c. 915), provides names for these wives which are generally similar to those inJubilees, but he makes themCainites rather thanSethites, despite clearly stating elsewhere that none of Noah's ancestors were descended from Cain.
Daughter ofLamech and Zillah and sister ofTubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba ben Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife and was called "Naamah" (pleasant) because her conduct was pleasing to God. But the majority of the rabbis reject this statement, declaring that Naamah was an idolatrous woman who sang "pleasant" songs to idols.
See alsoWives aboard the Ark for a list of traditional names given to the wives of Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
TheMormon Book of Abraham, first published in 1842, mentions Egyptus (Abraham 1:23) as being the name of Ham's wife; his daughter apparently had the same name (v. 25).
A large body of legend has attached itself toNimrod, whose brief mention in Genesis merely makes him "a mighty hunter in the face of theLord". (The biblical account makes no mention of a wife at all.) These legends usually make Nimrod to be a sinister figure, and they reach their peak in Hislop'sThe Two Babylons, which make Nimrod and his wifeSemiramis to be the original authors of every false andpagan religion.
Source: TheSefer Hayyashar, a book of Jewish lore published inVenice in 1625.[1] Also, the Persian mystical poem "Yusuf and Zulaikha" byJami, 15th century.
Pharaoh's daughter, who drewMoses out of the water, is known asBithiah in Jewish tradition (identifying her with the "Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah" in1 Chronicles 4:18).
Source:Midrash Bereshit Rabba 80:11. After Simeon and Levi slaughtered the men of Shechem, Dinah refused to go with them unless someone married her and raised the child of Prince Chamor she was carrying as his own. Simeon did this.
The names of Jannes and Jambres, or Jannes and Mambres, were well known through the ancient world as magicians. In this instance, nameless characters from theHebrew Bible are given names in theNew Testament. Their names also appear in numerous Jewish texts.
Apocryphal Jewish folklore says that Sitis, or Sitidos, was Job's first wife, who died during his trials. After his temptation was over, the same sources say thatJob remarriedDinah,Jacob's daughter who appears in Genesis.
According to Ethiopian traditions, the Queen of Sheba returned to Ethiopia pregnant with KingSolomon's child. She bore Solomon a son that went on to found adynasty that ruled Ethiopia until the fall of EmperorHaile Selassie in 1974.
Name: Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus.
Source: Eastern Orthodox Tradition
Thewoman with seven sons is a Jewishmartyr who is unnamed in2 Maccabees 7, but is named Hannah, Miriam, Shamuna and Solomonia in other sources. According to Eastern Orthodox tradition, her sons, the "Holy Maccabean Martyrs" (not to be confused with the martyrs in theEthiopian book ofMeqabyan), are named Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus. According to theSyriacMaronite Fenqitho (book of festal offices), the name of the mother is Shmooni while her sons are Habroun, Hebsoun, Bakhous, Adai, Tarsai, Maqbai and Yawnothon.[24]
The Gospel does not state that there were, in fact, three magi or when exactly they visited Jesus, only that multiple magi brought three gifts: gold,frankincense, andmyrrh. Nevertheless, the number of magi is usually extrapolated from the number of gifts, and thethree wise men are a staple of Christiannativity scenes. While the European names have enjoyed the most publicity, other faith traditions have different versions. According to theArmenisches Kindheitsevangelium, the three magi were brothers and kings, namely Balthasar, king of India; Melqon, king ofPersia; and Gaspar, king ofArabia. TheChinese Christian Church[clarification needed] believes that theastronomerLiu Xiang was one of the wise men.
Veronica is a Latin variant of Berenice (Greek:Βερενίκη). Veronica or Berenice obtained some of Jesus' blood on a cloth at theCrucifixion (see also:Veil of Veronica).[citation needed] Tradition identifies her with the woman who was healed of a bleeding discharge in the Gospel.
In the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the name of the woman at the well when she met Jesus is unknown, but she became a follower of Christ, received the name Photini in baptism, proclaimed the Gospel over a wide area, and was later martyred. She is recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Dives is simplyLatin for "rich", and as such may not count as a proper name. The story of the blessedLazarus and thedamned rich man is widely recognised under the title ofDives and Lazarus, which may have resulted in this word being taken for a proper name.
A long-standing Western Christian tradition first attested byPope Gregory I identifies the woman taken inadultery with Mary Magdalene, and also withMary of Bethany.[44] Jesus hadexorcised sevendemons out of Mary Magdalene (Mark16:9), and Mary Magdalene appears prominently in the several accounts of Jesus' entombment and resurrection, but there is no indication in the Bible that clearly states that Mary Magdalene was the same person as the adulteress forgiven by Jesus. Roman Catholics also have identified Mary Magdalene as the weeping woman who was a sinner, and who anoints Jesus' feet inLuke 7:36–50, and while the Church has dropped this interpretation to a degree, this remains one of her more famous portrayals.
TheEastern Orthodox Church has never identified Mary Magdalene as either the woman taken in adultery, or the sinful woman who anointed Jesus' feet.
During thetrial of Jesus the wife ofPontius Pilate sent a message to him saying, "Have nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
The proposed names of Procla and Procula may not be names at all, but simply a form of Pilate's official title ofProcurator, indicating that she was the Procurator's wife.
In tradition, he is called Cassius before his conversion to Christianity.[49] TheLance of Longinus, also known as theSpear of Destiny, is supposedly preserved as arelic, and various miracles are said to be worked through it.
Appears in the Bible atMatthew 27:62–66. Centurion possibly appears also in the Bible atMatthew 27:54 as a centurion saying “Truly this man was God’s Son!”.[50]
^The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Expansions of the "Old ... James H. Charlesworth - 1985 "He seeks to destroy men's souls (Vita 17:1) by disguising himself as an angel of light (Vita 9:1, 3; 12:1; ApMos 17:1) to put into men "his evil poison, which is his covetousness" (epithymia, ..."
^Eric Geoffroy et Néfissa Geoffroy : Le grand livre des prénoms arabes – Plus de 5500 prénoms classés par thèmes avec leurs correspondances en français, Albin Michel, 2009.
^Jean Du Puy,L'Etat de l'Eglise du Périgord depuis le christianisme (Daloy, 1629), Original from Lyon Public Library (Bibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines). Digitized 20 December 2010, p. 268.
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