(March 30, 2012 at 10:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.bibleinterp.com/review/man35821.shtml
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.
Why do you assume that Carpenters only work on homes? You do know where Galilee is located right? and you do know what people ate in those times who live near the sea? (hint it's fish) So how did they get those fish? (Nother hint: boats) What do you think those boats were made of stone? Maybe Sand and mud Like the houses?
So we have wooden boats (even though they did not live in a forest region) in a salt environment with primitive means of building boats (iron spikes, wooden dowels, dove tailing, and tar) which were used Everyday to sustain life for the members of this town because there was little else to eat. Sounds to me someone could make a living repairing boats that would otherwise wear out very fast. (wooden boats..) there is a word in the Greek that describes someone who works with wood we translate that word in the English what was it again??? I believe it Starts with a "C"...
