http://www.bibleinterp.com/review/man35821.shtml
Geography dictates that stone was the primary building material in the area. Galilee was not the forests of Gaul, you know.
Except for that fact that there was no jesus, joseph or Nazareth your boy could have been a pediatrician.
Sucks to be you.
Quote:As scholars have recently noted, the word usually translated “carpenter” (tekton) can also mean someone who worked with his hands, or a stone worker. As Joseph may have done stonework and manual labor rather than being a craftsman with wood, this would have put him in the lowest of the lower class. Therefore, the family Jesus grew up in would not have owned land, but they would have been subsistence farmers accustomed to menial labor. According to Stephen Patterson, the family of Jesus was a step below the normal peasant. This being the case, neither Joseph nor Jesus was a carpenter; they were more likely workers with stone and general manual labor.
Geography dictates that stone was the primary building material in the area. Galilee was not the forests of Gaul, you know.
Except for that fact that there was no jesus, joseph or Nazareth your boy could have been a pediatrician.
Sucks to be you.
