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To: NYer
From "Raiders Of The lost Ark" (The cup of a carpenter)

5 posted on 04/01/2014 11:59:12 AM PDT by Bobalu (Four Cokes And A Fried Chicken)
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To: Bobalu

I can say without a doubt that Jesus did not drink from some gaudy drinking cup. Nice try. It’s April Fool’s Day so let’s file it under that.


49 posted on 04/01/2014 1:53:07 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Bobalu
According to Christian theologians and their Aramaic texts St. Joseph was not a carpenter. A carpenter was a PROFESSION and Joseph was a poor man. He did work with "hard substances."

What he probably did was work in the limestone mines which abound over there. They still do today.
Working in a mine as a common laborer would, in the minds of most theologians, be more of a job for the poor. Jesus was part of his family so HE too probably worked in the many mines.

From Google:
The highlands of Israel and the Palestinian territories are primarily underlain by sedimentary limestone, dolomite and dolomitic limestone. The stone quarried for building purposes, ranging in color from white to pink, yellow and tawny, is known collectively as Jerusalem stone.

Soft Senonian limestone is found to the east of Jerusalem, and has long been used as an inexpensive building material. Stone of the Cenomanian layers, known in Arabic as mizzi ahmar and mizzi yahudz, is far more durable than Senonian limestone, but is very hard and was expensive to quarry using pre-modern methods.

Turonian layers yield mizze helu and meleke, the most prized building stones. The thin layered mizze helu is easily quarried and worked.

Meleke is soft and easy to chisel, yet hardens with exposure to the atmosphere and becomes highly durable. It was used for the great public buildings of antiquity, and for the construction of the Islamic period city walls and buildings.

61 posted on 04/01/2014 3:16:38 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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