Ruins found in Nazareth could be Jesus’ childhood home

https://nypost.com ^ | November 28, 2020 | Melanie Gray

[Elsie]

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

[TigersEye]

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

Would carpenters live in a stone house?

[Elsie]

... but the article itself has him admitting that he “can’t be 100% sure”.

Well;

DUH!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

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

[Elsie]

Where’d that ZERO come from?

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

[Elsie]

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

[madison10]

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

[Elsie]

Do airline pilots drive cars?

[21twelve]

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”!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

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.

[Ezekiel]

“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!

[Varda]

5 year old open source paper from BAR (Biblical Archeology Review)

Has Jesus’ Nazareth house been found?

[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.

[AFB-XYZ]

Heh heh. I kind of thought the same thing.

[Beowulf9]

Kinda brilliant ;)

[AnxiouslyWaiting]

😀

Well done!!

[dynachrome]

Every now and then a brain cell fires up.

[Vendome]

How would they know?

Its not like the guy left a forwarding address

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

Jesus, Jesus...