Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, was a Jewish woman from Nazareth in Galilee, who according to various New Testament passages pertaining to the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles, as well as various apocryphal texts such as the Proto-Gospel of James , lived between the end of the 1st century BC and the middle of the 1st century AD. The Koran, the holy book of Islam, also presents her as the mother of Jesus, under her Arabic name, Maryam or Miriam.