Is Jacob the father of Joseph?

Answer 1

Jewish.

Another Answer:

At this point on the timeline of man, Joseph's father, Jacob/Israel was a Hebrew as the grandson of Abram - Abraham:

Genesis 14:13New International Version (NIV)

13 A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew.

God was in direct communication with Israel and then Joseph. There was no organized religion or Priests. Collectively, the 12 sons and 1 daughter of Israel became known as Israelites.

Eventually, after the death of King Solomon (circa 930 BC) and the dividing the Kingdom of Israel into the Northern Kingdom called Israel and the Southern Kingdom called Judah, the dominant tribe of the Southern Kingdom was the 4th son of Israel, Judah. After this time and during their Babylonian captivity, the people of the Southern Kingdom became known as Jew.

Answer 2

A:Old Testament: Jacob is the father of Joseph.

New Testament: Jacob is the father of Joseph in Matthew's Gospel, but Heli is the father of Joseph in Luke's Gospel. Of course the two New Testament genealogies are contradictory, and Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that there is little likelihood that either is strictly historical.

Answer:

There are various people named Joseph in The Bible. The 11th son of Jacob became the 2nd in power in Egypt before Israel became slaves in Genesis.

Two others in the New Testament Gospels are Jesus' step-father Joseph and in His genealogy in Luke 3, Joseph His grandfather - mother of Mary (some say gr grand). This is a highly controversial Joseph due to the translations.

Luke 3, which lists the genealogy from Nathan, might also seem to be the family record of Joseph-but he is here listed as being the "son of Heli" (verse 23). Actually, the literal Greek says only "Joseph of Heli"-not "son of Heli." Now the genitive "of" does imply "son of" throughout the remainder of the genealogy. But in this case, it is widely acknowledged to mean "son-in-law of"-making Heli the father of Joseph's wife Mary, who truly was the mother of Jesus.

Answer 3

Actually there were two Joseph's who were son's of men named Jacob. The first was Joseph who is found in the Old Testament book of Genesis. This Joseph went to Egypt as a slave but became the "second in command" in the land of Egypt. He married Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah. They had two sons.

The second Joseph was a carpenter who lived in Nazareth. He married Mary the mother of Jesus. Jesus was of course the Son of God, but many believe that Joseph and Mary had other sons and daughters.

Answer 4

A:

There are two genealogies of Jesus in the gospels. Both trace his ancestry in different ways back through his earthly father Joseph to Judah, son of Israel. On these accounts, he was not descended through his father from Joseph, son of Israel. However, biblical scholars say that neither genealogy is likely to be historically correct.

A logical inference is that Joseph, son of Israel, is unlikely to have been an ancestor of Jesus, either through his earthly father Joseph or through Mary, because Jews are supposed to be descendants of Judah, not Joseph. If we accept that the Old Testament is literally correct, then both Joseph and Mary, as proper Jews, would be descended from Judah.

We note that in Luke's Gospel, Joseph and Mary were inhabitants of Galilee, far to the north of the former kingdom of Judah. The people of Galilee were pagans who were forcibly converted to Judaism during the second century BCE. On this information, Joseph and Mary, although Jewish by religion, would probably not be descended from either Joseph or Judah.

Answer 5

Yes, Jacob is the father of Joseph in the Bible. Joseph is one of Jacob's twelve sons, who is known for his colorful coat and his eventual rise to power in Egypt.