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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.
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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.
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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...)
To: Beowulf9
Weren’t Jesus and his father (Joseph, the earthly one) both carpenters?
Would carpenters live in a stone house?
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:03:49 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
To: AFB-XYZ
... but the article itself has him admitting that he “can’t be 100% sure”. Well;
DUH!
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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...)
To: dynachrome
I see what you did there, Mr. Tommy Tutone.
To: dynachrome
Where’d that ZERO come from?
Obviously false. Probably sends you to a click-bait site.
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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...)
To: Elsie
...unless the stones were parted out to build a different structure.
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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...)
To: TigersEye
Carpenters at that time meant builders/craftsmen. They could have just as easily worked in stone as wood.
To: TigersEye
Do airline pilots drive cars?
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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...)
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”!
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:09:51 PM PST
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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.
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!
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:14:14 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:15:44 PM PST
by
Varda
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.
To: Elsie
Heh heh. I kind of thought the same thing.
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:23:01 PM PST
by
AFB-XYZ
(Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:30:29 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: dynachrome
To: AnxiouslyWaiting
Every now and then a brain cell fires up.
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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)
To: Beowulf9
How would they know?
Its not like the guy left a forwarding address
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:51:34 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:54:11 PM PST
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Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
11/29/2020 5:55:29 PM PST
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Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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