Is This Where Jesus Bathed?

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 10-22-2003 | Jonathan Cook

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[Young Rhino]

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[NautiNurse]

Great find! Thanks for posting the story.

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[Luke]

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[glorgau]

Prediction: In a couple of weeks it will also turn out to be "muslim holy site"

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[RightWhale]

Just a couple small problems with Nazareth as JC's childhood neighborhood. But it makes a fun story--finding a Roman bathhouse in modern Nazareth.

[WackyKat]

Jesus in a bathhouse?
I'm not touching that one!

[Dixielander]

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[r9etb]

That would mean Joseph and Mary, and their son Jesus, would have been living in the very heart of the occupying power. This is likely to have huge significance for New Testament scholars in their understanding of Jesus's later teachings.

It would certainly help explain how the Centurion in Matt. 8:5-13 knew enough about Jesus to seek him out.

[hopespringseternal]

Just a couple small problems with Nazareth as JC's childhood neighborhood.

Don't just throw out that sort of thing: Back it up with reasoning or sources.

[RightWhale]

Don't know, but I heard there was no Nazareth in those times. Also the term Nazarene didn't mean someone from Nazareth, but a member of a sect. Please clarify, if possible.

[Cobra Scott]

I believe Josephus never mentioned a Nazereth, but mentioned both larger and smaller cities. I think that is the basis for the Nazereth enigma. That is just from memory, but good search term is "Josephus' History of the Jews" + "Nazereth"

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"bathhouse of Jesus"
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[hopespringseternal]

Don't know, but I heard there was no Nazareth in those times.

Standard archaelogy: "It doesn't exist unless I have physical evidence." This one is pretty silly, actually. This position is an academic oddity because it is pretty much always proven wrong.

Also the term Nazarene didn't mean someone from Nazareth, but a member of a sect.

Are you thinking of Nazirite? As in Samson? Judges 13:4-5
Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean, because you will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines."

[r9etb]

Don't know, but I heard there was no Nazareth in those times.

Well, I don't know. The Gospels were written within the lifetimes of people who were there, and they mention Nazareth -- are you suggesting that they simply made up the name?

[wimpycat]

Oh, you know how it is. Whatever's in the Gospels isn't true, unless somebody else who wasn't a Christian wrote it down, too.