Quote:As it turns out, another discovery was made in ancient Nazareth, a year after Salm’s book appeared. It is a house that dates to the days of Jesus.
Yes..."a" house was found. This is actually in keeping with the findings of the noted xtian scholar, Stephen Pfann who excavated under the auspices of the IAA and found a single family farm which was dated to the Early Roman Period.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/2...index.html
Quote:The find marks the first time researchers have uncovered the remains of a home in Nazareth from that time period, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said in a statement.
You do understand that farmers would most likely live in a house on the farm and that one house does not make a city?
And, as for the "days of jesus?" When was that? When the myth was written or when the myth writers claimed it to be?
Salm is the first to admit that he is not an archaeologist himself but he has examined the archaeological papers and carefully foot-noted them. He also can't help but point out that the prime "work" was done by the Italian archaeologist Bellarmino Camillo Bagatti. Bagatti was also a catholic priest of the Franciscan order. Would you care to hazard a guess which gang of catholics is in charge of the site? The Franciscans.
I have researched the textual claims which Salm made about Origen, Eusebius ( who wrote the tale of Helena visiting the Holy Land) and the Pilgrim of Bordeaux. Salm is correct.
No one seemed to know fuckall about any "Nazareth" until after the church was recognized by Constantine. That's when the whole pilgrimage/relic horseshit started. Josephus campaigned extensively in 67AD right across the spot near Sepphoris and never seems to have bumped into any "Nazareth." The OT and Talmud know nothing of it.
In spite of the insistence of the gospel writers that "Nazareth" was a polis with a synagogue xtians have tried to downsize it down to a small hamlet. Let me know when you get it down to a single family farm, will you?
Oh, it's late now but if you'd like to read Professor Pfann's article about his Nazareth excavations I'm sure I can find it for you. That is.... if you are willing to read it?
