Except as pointed out before term "brother" here could mean "cousin" given there wasn't a term in Hebrew to distinguish between the two. So simply saying James the Just was a cousin would have worked. No need to create more James.
First I ever heard of Zebedee being "another name for the devil" and a quick trip to
Biblegateway shows this claim to be total garbage.
I have replaced Zebedee with
Satan in the 11 passages in which the name appears to show just how idiotic this claim is (KJV):
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of
Satan, and John his brother, in a ship with
Satan their father, mending their nets; and he called them. - Matthew 4:21
Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of
Satan, and John his brother; - Matthew 10:2
Then came to him the mother of
Satans children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. - Matthew 20:20
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of
Satan, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. - Matthew 26:37
Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of
Satans children. - Matthew 27:56
And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of
Satan, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. - Mark 1:19
And straightway he called them: and they left their father
Satan in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. - Mark 1:20
And James the son of
Satan, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: - Mark 3:17
And James and John, the sons of
Satan, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. - Mark 10:35
And so was also James, and John, the sons of
Satan, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. - Luke 5:10
There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of
Satan, and two other of his disciples. - John 21:2
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I know about Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Dickens, Hobbs, Lucifer and
the infernal names article over at wikipedia cranks out several I never saw before but I have never heard Zebedee referred as being a name for the devil.
Show me a work published by a university press that states Zebedee is another name of the devil as this doesn't make sense.
