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Is the Rahab that helped Joshua the same Rahab mentioned in the lineage of Christ?
In the Bible, her name was 'Rahab'. At Joshua chapters 2 through 6, Rahab was instrumental in helping the Israelites in their conquest of Jericho. She hid the two spies that Joshua had sent to spy out the land. And yes, she is the same Rahab mentioned in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Interestingly, Rahab and Bath-sheba were the not Israelite women, but they purified themselves and became Hebrew by marriage. Jesus' earthly mother Mary was the only Jewish woman mentioned in the Bible as an ancestress.
Was Simon the same person as Peter in the bible?
Yes.
Was Rahab in Jericho the same Rahab as in Jesus' genealogy?
A:There are two genealogies of Jesus, through his father Joseph and back through the male line - one in Matthew's Gospel and one in Luke's Gospel, and it is in Matthew's version that we see Rahab as an ancestor of Jesus. Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that there is little likelihood that the genealogy in either Matthew or Luke is strictly historical. Quite simply, neither author knew anything about the infancy and ancestry of Jesus, but felt that their readers needed to be told something. Scholars also say that the battle of Jericho never took place as described in the Bible, and there was never a Rahab of Jericho. The author of Matthew was simply writing Christian midrash, placing Rahab in Jesus' ancestry for theological reasons.Another thought:Yes. The Bible says that Rahab did indeed became an ancestress of Jesus.(Matthew 1:5+6/Ruth 4:20-22) Formerly a prostitute, she hid two Israelite men who were spying out the land of Canaan(Joshua 2:1-7)in 1473 BCE, and because of her faithfulness, was spared at the fall of Jericho, becoming a worshiper of YHWH. (Hebrews 11:30+31; James 2:25)(Joshua 2:15; Joshua 6:17,22-23+25).
What two books in the Bible are exactly the same?
There are no books the same in the Bible.
Wasn't there a person that was in the Bible that had the same story as Jesus with a different name?
No. There is however a book in the Old Testament with the name that is the same as Jesus. Its called the book of Joshua.
