It seems that Sabrine R. Huebner is “open” to the “Epiphanian” understanding of the brothers/sisters of Jesus (i.e., children of a previous marriage), a view also held by J. P. Lightfoot and Richard Bauckham. I reject it, but it is way more plausible than of Jerome’s view:
According to his contemporaries, Jesus’ abandonment of his profession
and his family, his controversial attitude toward the authorities, and his voluntary
sought death strongly neglected the traditional role of a widowed mother’s son.
Whether Jesus’ attested brothers were Mary’s biological sons or came from
Joseph via an earlier marriage, we will never know. However, as the oldest and
possibly, the only son of Mary, Jesus would have been responsible for his
elderly widowed mother, who anticipated a difficult financial, social, and emotional
situation in her old age. (Sabine R. Huebner, Papyri and the Social World of
the New Testament [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019], 85)
