I have seen that discussion of Nazarite, Nasorean, Nazareth, too. It's interesting but I don't know how you actually prove it. The Greeks and Romans had a tendency to say "Joe of somewhere" while the Jews used the patronymic form "Joe son of Shlomo" for example. As has been pointed out repeatedly, if someone had said "jesus of nazareth" to a first century jew the answer would have been "jesus of where?"
The archaeological evidence that catholic monks hang their hats on is abysmal. A couple of oil lamps which have been dated to later times. There were some tombs cut into the limestone which means that if there were "jews" living there they were living near a cemetery which is forbidden.
The fairly respected xtian scholar, Stephen Pfann, excavated there in the 90's and found a farm. Not a city. Not even a town. Not even a village.
We know in 67 AD that Josephus marched his army all over the area of Sepphoris and although he noted many towns that he passed through he never seems to have heard of fucking "Nazareth."
The archaeological evidence that catholic monks hang their hats on is abysmal. A couple of oil lamps which have been dated to later times. There were some tombs cut into the limestone which means that if there were "jews" living there they were living near a cemetery which is forbidden.
The fairly respected xtian scholar, Stephen Pfann, excavated there in the 90's and found a farm. Not a city. Not even a town. Not even a village.
We know in 67 AD that Josephus marched his army all over the area of Sepphoris and although he noted many towns that he passed through he never seems to have heard of fucking "Nazareth."
