what were their last names?

Question

does the bible mention the last names in the lineage from david to jesus? or is it just a list of first names?

wasn't magdelene the last name of mary magdelene? and as far as being named after your father back then... can you really rely on the lineage layed out as being accurate then. the names listed in the lineage are fairly commons for that time. so to say jesus, son of mary or son of joseph doesn't say much. i'm sure there were literally thousands of people named jesus at that time who were born to a mary and/or a joseph.

Answer 1

I think their last name was their tribe. Like the twelve tribes of Israel.

Answer 2

Having last names is a relatively new tradition. In ancient times people where known by their lineage, their actions (in the case of kings and rulers especially), their place of origin, and their professions. For example, King David would have been known as David ben Jesse (David son of Jesse) or David the shephard. That's where much of the confusion about the supposed contradictions in the Old Testament come from, people don't recognize the fact many kings where often called by several different names depending on the association other cultures made with the person or the acts the ruler performed.

Answer 3

In those times there were no last names.

Answer 4

It's a list of first names; and I am sure that God made sure that the right first names were put into the geneologies.
As to Mary Magdalene, she came from the town of Magdala or Magadan, a town on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Answer 5

First Names and There Father before them

Answer 6

The Messiah will be of the seed of Abraham,the son of Isaac, the son of Jacob, of the tribe of Judah, in the family line of Jesse, of the house of David.

To explore further detail, we first notice that these prophecies use male pronoun when referring to the Messiah gender. That excludes half of the people who had ever lived ( women ) from that pool of candidates.

Abraham had two sons, one of whom was Isaac. Thus, half of the men who have eve lived who are descended from Abraham are excluded from the pool.

Isaac also has two sons, one of whom was Jacob. This eliminates half the male descendants of Isaac from that pool.

Jacob had 12 sons, one of whom was Judah, which eliminates 11 out of every 12 of his descendants.

Jesse fathered 8 sons, one of whom was David. This eliminates 7 out of 8 male descendants of Jesse from the pool.

Lastly, David had ten sons, eliminating nine out of ten male descendants of David.It is obvious that the Messiah was someone extremely specific and that the pool of candidates is incredibly small. Not just anyone could make that claim and be taken seriously. : )

Answer 7

People went by their first names and perhaps were known by their father's name as well. Not as a last name, but as......John and James, sons of Zebedee.

Even Leonardo, the great artist, was known only as Leonardo. DaVinci is where he was from.

Answer 8

They didn't have last names back then. Usually a "last name" would have consisted of your lineage or where you came from.

Such as:
Jesus son of Joseph.
or
Jesus of Nazareth.

Surnames as we know them did not exist back then.

Answer 9

Just Curious, like everybody says it was your father or whatever. "Christ" wasn't Jesus' last name. Christ is a title. It means "messiah" or "special one". It should really be "Jesus the Christ", or "Christ Jesus". Everybody goes around talking about Jesus Christ, and how they know Him personally. Funny, they don't even get His name and title right?

Answer 10

In biblical times, Jews didn't have last names I heard