Martha


 
 
Martha

Martha (Jud?o-Aramaic מַרְתָּא Mart? "The lady", French Sainte Marthe) is a biblical figure of whom no historical facts outside of it are known. According to the gospel of John, she was the sister of Lazarus and Mary, and she witnessed her brother's resurrection.

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Martha is mentioned only in Luke 10:38-42; and John 11, 12, sqq. The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatfan inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD. 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form Marthein, AD 179.


 

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Gospel of John: The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the sequence of the canon as printed in the New Testament, and scholars agree it was the fourth to be written. Like the other three gospels, it contains an account of the life of Jesus....


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Introduction
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Biblical Martha
Expansion of the Martha tradition
Memory
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