Joseph and Jesus were supposed to have been carpenters... Anybody ever found any sort of a table or chair or any thing like that??
Carpenters work with wood. Not sure wooden objects designed for everyday use, would survive 2000 years.
He was a tekton, which is more than wood, but stone and other things (think construction). Remember Herod was building up Sepphoris at the time and there was plenty work there (and don’t forget where they fled to after Christ’s birth).
Obviously they weren’t as skilled as they are today, even if he picked up the best from the masons, would they want to call attention to themselves more in Nazereth?
Now, hypocrite that I am, i’m willing to take that back when they find the Frank Marshall version of the mini-Guggenheim in Nazareth. LOL
I can see it now... “Who does he think he is, a big shot”; I think the scandal of the town thinking Mary lied about her pregnancy (she didn’t), was enough.
“Joseph and Jesus were supposed to have been carpenters”
The translation actually is “laborer” — could be anything from a bricklayer to a carpenter. Given the lack of wood in Israel, I suspect a bricklayer.
How come a Jewish guy knows this? (Probably because I lived in Israel and go “wood?”)
I read a book by James Tabor, an archeologist and Biblical scholar that says the word was mistranslated as ‘carpenter’ when the proper translation would have been stoneworker or mason.
Probably more work for stoneworkers than carpenters in that arid land.