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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnMaria}{MARIA: This is the name for the mother of Iesous used in Matthew's gospel. 
Where Luke's infancy narrative gives MARIAM, Matthew's gives 
the more Hellenized MARIA throughout (1:16, 1:18) — the form also used elsewhere in the NT 
for other women bearing the name (Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and others), and the form 
that passed into Latin and thence into English "Mary." The FNT preserves this distinction 
rather than harmonizing the two Gospels to a single spelling: Luke's MARIAM carries the LXX 
echo of the prophetess directly; Matthew's MARIA does not draw on it in the same way, at 
least not by name alone.
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See `MARIAM'
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