C’mon...everyone knows Jesus was a community organizer!!
One respected Biblical scholar claims the language issue has confused the actual occupation of Joseph and Jesus.
His reading of the Aramaic original is that the occupation is ‘stone worker’ or mason. That might be more reasonable and common in small village whose homes were known to be constructed largely of stone.
In either case, its more likely that the occupation was blue-collar than an elite architect in a poor village.
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Jesus was the Son of God.
In Classical Greek the word tekton means one who works with wood, a carpenter, a craftsman, a creator, a builder. It is a very general term. According to the New Testament Jesus was a tekton as his occupation. The word τέχνη (techni=art) whicb has come ot us in words like technology, technocrat, etc. In Modern Greek it (technikos) usually refers to masonry (mason means builder) In the Gospels, Jesus is called - tekton - the Greek word that means not merely a carpenter skilled in making cabinets or furniture but a designer, construction engineer, or architect.
Jesus could have been a stone worker. Even though the Greek does not explicitly state what kind of Tekton Jesus was, according to the Church's Universal Tradition until the 11th century (because the Church was One until 1054), Jesus was a carpenter.
In 33 BC or so a carpenter would have been one of the more affluent members of a small town, a middle class man, as it were, and the proprietor of a business. Carpentry was not rag-picking.
“as well as using human psychology”
Must have missed that particular hermeneutic.