The problem with Africanus is that his work is not extant and is mainly found in the writings of that noted xtian fraud, Eusebius. Hence there is a credibility problem.
We do have the "priestly courses inscription"
http://www.textexcavation.com/priestlyco...ption.html
but again...much as with the earlier Tel Dan stele...people tend to see what they want to see.
Now, we know that after 135 the jews were booted out of Judaea by Hadrian and that is when they began to move into Galilee. It is quite probably that settlement at Nazareth began at that time as they sure as shit would not have gone to Sepphoris or Tiberias which were fully Greco-Roman towns complete with temples which have now been excavated. Nazareth is 5 miles or so from Sepphoris. Close enough, as the saying goes, without being too close.
We do have the "priestly courses inscription"
http://www.textexcavation.com/priestlyco...ption.html
but again...much as with the earlier Tel Dan stele...people tend to see what they want to see.
Quote:Fragment 1 has the putative mention of Nazareth; it was dated by Professor N. Avigad to the 3rd or 4th century
Now, we know that after 135 the jews were booted out of Judaea by Hadrian and that is when they began to move into Galilee. It is quite probably that settlement at Nazareth began at that time as they sure as shit would not have gone to Sepphoris or Tiberias which were fully Greco-Roman towns complete with temples which have now been excavated. Nazareth is 5 miles or so from Sepphoris. Close enough, as the saying goes, without being too close.
