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What Were Houses Like at the Time of Jesus?
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 03-20-17 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 03/21/2017 8:02:33 AM PDT by Salvation

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To: Salvation

More affordable than they are now as all of the prime real estate had not yet been bought or developed.


21 posted on 03/21/2017 12:49:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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My ancestors had to live in ditch, they went to sleep at night DREAMING they could live in a hovel.


22 posted on 03/21/2017 12:51:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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Because Msgr. Pope was writing about what houses were like in Nazareth at the time of Jesus, I believe it would have been more accurate for him to have written: “the basic building material in Galilee was stone.”


23 posted on 03/21/2017 1:51:02 PM PDT by rwa265
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