There are numerous scriptures in the New Testament attesting to the fact that Joseph (= "Yosef ben Eli) was the father of Jesus (= Yeshua ben Yosef). Orthodox Christians insist that Joseph was merely Jesus' "step father", but there is nothing in the New Testament to support this. Jesus is also called the "Son of God", hence the mis-identification; but this must be understood allegorically, since all the followers of Jesus are also called "Sons of God". According to the gospel accounts, Miryam gave birth to Yeshua without having had sex with Yosef, by miraculous intervention. This, of course, says nothing about who Jesus' biological father was; it simply describes the way in which Miryam was inseminated. And all scriptures, in both the Old and New Testaments, agree that God is not a human being and therefore does not have semen and DNA; nevertheless, the matter is much argued about.
Some have gone to great lengths to discredit the existence of a historical Christ; but the evidence is overwhelming. The greatest evidence, of course, is the New Testament, which contains the accounts of eyewitnesses Matthew, Mark, John, Peter, James and Jude. I know of no historical figure who has been more attested to, in such detail, by so many. These are corroborated by many writers only a space of decades later, namely, Clement, the author of the Didache, Ignatius and Justyn Martyr -- who, while not eyewitnesses themselves, were contemporary and in communication with eyewitnesses and close relatives of Jesus. The historian Josephus is also quoted as having made reference to both Jesus and his brother James -- and if we are to doubt him, then we must also doubt much of what we know about First Century Judea. As a body of genealogical evidence, this is completely incontrovertable. In fact, if one is to doubt the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth, one must by the same standard reject Homer, Plato, Aristotle and virtually all of ancient history.
Jesus, of the lineage of King David, claimed to be the Messiah, the prophesied King of the Jews. A large number of Jews accepted him as such, and it was for having made this claim that he was executed by the Romans. I have put "King of the Jews" in quotes here, because Jesus himself did not claim any earthly kingship.
In Matthew's genealogy of (2) Yosef Av Yeshua, (10) Ya'akov ben Mattan was said to have "begotten" Yosef. Elsewhere in this genealogy, though, Matthew used the term "begat" quite liberally, often omitting several generations. Luke's genealogy of Yosef (not of (3) Miryam, as some Orthodox Christians assert without basis), on the other hand, which shows Yosef's father as (4) Eli, seems to have included all generations -- giving 35 such between Yeshua and King David, for an average of exactly 30 years per generation.
It is therefore reasonable to assume that (4) Eli was (2) Yosef's father, and that (10) Ya'akov was Yosef's grandfather. It can further be assumed that this Ya'akov had no sons, for the following reason: In order for (1) Yeshua ben Yosef to have been the awaited Messiah of Israel, he would have had to have been the legitimate descendant of ALL THE KINGS of the Davidic line. Matthew showed this descent in his gospel, selectively omitting Ya'akov's daughter because she, though the transmitter of the royal inheritance, was ineligible to herself be considered in the royal line. Matthew had done something similar in omitting the immediate descendants of Atalyah bat Izevel -- probably considering them as not truly Israelite to the third generation because they were of Canaanite descent. According to Biblical custom, Ya'akov's daughter, his heir, probably married within her father's clan; thus preserving the inheritance, including the right to kingship, in Ya'akov's line. Note that this was not a "Levirate marriage" of a widow, as some have postulated -- which would have to have been to a much closer kinsman.
Akar, Hismeria and Elind are all mythical characters from medieval Christian legends. We know of a certainty, though, that Elisheva was the wife of Z'kharyah and cousin of (3) Miryam
