wife of Heli
Tribe of Levi(?)
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The wife of Heli was sister of Elizather who mothered John the Baptist.
The wife of Heli, identified in some textual traditions as the sister of Elizabeth (the mother of John the Baptist), is mentioned in the patristic genealogical harmonization of the differing lineages of Joseph in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. In Luke 3:23, Heli is given as the father of Joseph (the husband of Mary), and some early interpreters proposed that Mary herself was a daughter of Heli, making Joseph his son-in-law rather than biological son. This figure is unnamed in the canonical text and her details derive from early Christian genealogical traditions rather than the New Testament itself.