To: muawiyah
Depicting Jews with their heads covered would be true to the event ~ particularly for the folks identified as Jews in the story ~ on the other hand the shephards might simply have been bedouin, or maybe some other nationality then living in this area under Roman control.
Jews used to tend sheep too. Abraham, Isaac, and Moses did it!
Of course this part gets tricky, since no one would bring their flocks out in winter.
56 posted on
12/20/2006 5:34:35 PM PST by
rmlew
(Having slit their throats may the conservatives who voted for Casey choke slowly on their blood.)
To: rmlew
Bedouin wouldn't have much choice though, and dirt poor Greeks trapped in the Levant by Roman oppression might well take any sort of job.
Noting that Moses once worked as a shephard, he eventually got a promotion.
By the Jesus time Jews were a remarkably settled people and were quickly acquiring the knowledge and skills to become the world's first truly organized and functioning "industrial class".
58 posted on
12/20/2006 5:38:51 PM PST by
muawiyah
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