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Ruins found in Nazareth could be Jesus’ childhood home
https://nypost.com ^ | November 28, 2020 | Melanie Gray

Posted on 11/29/2020 4:11:37 PM PST by Beowulf9

A British ist thinks he has found the childhood home of Jesus in Nazareth.

Ken Dark began surveying the site about 14 years ago when he was studying the Israeli town’s history as a Byzantine Christian pilgrimage center, the Jerusalem Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; byzantineempire; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jerusalem; jesus; kendark; nazareth; sunkenciv
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To: Vermont Lt; wita

What will seal the deal is finding an old stuffed toy curelom.


21 posted on 11/29/2020 5:03:37 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Beowulf9

Weren’t Jesus and his father (Joseph, the earthly one) both carpenters?

Would carpenters live in a stone house?


22 posted on 11/29/2020 5:03:49 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: AFB-XYZ
... but the article itself has him admitting that he “can’t be 100% sure”.

Well;

DUH!


23 posted on 11/29/2020 5:04:34 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dynachrome

I see what you did there, Mr. Tommy Tutone.


24 posted on 11/29/2020 5:04:54 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: dynachrome

Where’d that ZERO come from?

Obviously false. Probably sends you to a click-bait site.


25 posted on 11/29/2020 5:06:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

...unless the stones were parted out to build a different structure.


26 posted on 11/29/2020 5:07:59 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TigersEye

Carpenters at that time meant builders/craftsmen. They could have just as easily worked in stone as wood.


27 posted on 11/29/2020 5:08:32 PM PST by madison10
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To: TigersEye

Do airline pilots drive cars?


28 posted on 11/29/2020 5:09:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I was hoping for more photos. Even as just a “typical” home from that era and place it would be of interest to me to see how Jesus might have lived. I mean, I have an idea. (I guess I could always do a search on “typical buildings first century rural Israel”!


29 posted on 11/29/2020 5:09:51 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: TigersEye

Back then, what English translations describe as ‘carpenters’ were more like ‘builders’. They would build homes more likely out of stone in that part of the world, as wood was especially scarce. There was lots more scrub bushes than trees in that area so stone was used. Bushes would make good fires.


30 posted on 11/29/2020 5:12:26 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Elsie
“I didn’t go to Nazareth to find the house of Jesus…,” Dark, a professor at University of Reading, told the BBC. “Nobody could have been more surprised than me.”

Maybe his head was sewn to the carpet? 'Tis the season!

31 posted on 11/29/2020 5:14:14 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Beowulf9
5 year old open source paper from BAR (Biblical Archeology Review)

Has Jesus’ Nazareth house been found?

32 posted on 11/29/2020 5:15:44 PM PST by Varda
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To: madison10

People called Jesus a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and He was known as a carpenter’s son (Matthew 13:55). There is some evidence that the Greek word used for “carpenter” (tekton) could also be translated more broadly as “artisan,” “contractor,” or “handyman.”

It is possible, therefore, that Jesus and Joseph were the sort of men you call when something needs to be fixed—be it made of wood, stone, or something else. It is also possible that they acted as civil engineers, even designing bridges or other structures that were needed by the people of the town.


33 posted on 11/29/2020 5:16:57 PM PST by madison10
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To: Elsie

Heh heh. I kind of thought the same thing.


34 posted on 11/29/2020 5:23:01 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: dynachrome

Kinda brilliant ;)


35 posted on 11/29/2020 5:30:29 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: dynachrome

😀

Well done!!


36 posted on 11/29/2020 5:42:04 PM PST by AnxiouslyWaiting
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To: AnxiouslyWaiting

Every now and then a brain cell fires up.


37 posted on 11/29/2020 5:46:14 PM PST by dynachrome (People who get what they want are often surprised when they also get what they deserve. ~ james wood)
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To: Beowulf9

How would they know?

Its not like the guy left a forwarding address


38 posted on 11/29/2020 5:51:34 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vermont Lt

39 posted on 11/29/2020 5:54:11 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: dynachrome

Jesus, Jesus...


40 posted on 11/29/2020 5:55:29 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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