I just listened to a lecture last night from a seminary professor who, strangely enough, wrote his doctoral dissertation on this very subject. This professor, speaking in the area of his expertise, Jewish culture in N.T. times, flatly stated that it was customary for Jewish men to not marry until their 30's and that they usually married (it sounds strange to us) teenagers. Moreover, he also alluded to an Old Testament prophetic tradition of singleness that would not have been at all unusual to those people.
What is your source for your assertion that it would be *VERY* odd for any rabbi or, for that matter nearly any 30 year old man, to not be married?
Cordially,
I believe you have the wrong guy...
That assertion was actually made in a post 76, to which ZD was responding.