Quote:But there is something about gMark's Jesus being from Nazareth rather than Bethlehem that points to the likelihood of a historical Jesus rather than a mythical one.
Point #1 - if you bother to read all of Micah 5 you will see that it has nothing to do with any fucking jesus. It talks about a military leader who would arise and kick the shit out of the Assyrians....some 700 years earlier.
(That didn't work out so well either. Assyria overran Israel and relegated it to the dustbin of history. So much for 'god.')
Point #2. Jewish usage for a male would have been X son of y. So, jesus bar joseph would be a proper patronymic for an allegedly jewish figure. The idea of X from Y as in Antipater of Sidon, Antipater of Tarsus, Antipater of Thessalonica, Antipater of Tyre was a Greek styling. If there was a Nazareth at the end of the first millennium and somebody named "jesus" was from there that would cast a high degree of doubt on his jewishness....and I doubt that fundie assholes like drippy and the prof are willing to go that far. More likely is that the author of mark was some Greco-Roman who mistook the word nazirite for nazareth and applied his own formulation.
