Nazareth

[Minimalist]

There could not have been a jesus of nazareth if there was no fucking nazareth at the end of the first millenium BC.

For that reason, Xtians insist that lamps found in tombs = a town and completely ignore the fact that jews would not have lived in a cemetery.

[Rev. Rye]

"Can -anything- good come from Nazareth?"

Martin Guitars is based out of Nazareth... well, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, at least, but they still revolutionised the way guitars are built.

[Minimalist]

 

I'm trying Jair!

[JairCrawford]

The cemetery they found intrigues me. I understand there are a lot of places around it that have not been dug yet but there are plans to.

I think of the cemetery they found, and the evident distaste for the place called Nazareth in scripture.

[Minimalist]

Yeah, well.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth#Kokh_tombs

Kokh tombs

Noteworthy is that all the post-Iron Age tombs in the Nazareth basin (approximately two dozen) are of the kokh (plural kokhim) or later types; this type probably first appeared in Galilee in the middle of the 1st century AD.

Josephus reports that P. Quinctillius Varus, then Imperial Legate of Syria, put down the revolts which broke out upon the death of Herod the Great in 4 BC.  Supposedly he captured and burned Sepphoris but archaeology has failed to confirm this as there is no destruction layer.  Herod Antipas began a rebuilding project or perhaps an expansion of the site after he was confirmed as tetrarch of Galilee.  It is not out of the realm of possibly that jewish residents of Sepphoris looked for a quiet place to bury their dead.  Sepphoris was a Greco-Roman city.  Again, when Josephus brought the Great Revolt to Galilee the citizens of both Tiberias and Sepphoris invited him to go fuck himself.  They wanted no part of this jewish insanity!

[Godscreated]

The skeptics here and every where do not want the town of Nazareth to have existed during Christ time, it would move them one step closer to looking for the truth. It was recorded in a 1st century writing, so yes it was there.

GC

[Whateverist]

The skeptics here and every where do not want the town of Nazareth to have existed during Christ time, it would move them one step closer to looking for the truth. It was recorded in a 1st century writing, so yes it was there.

GC

Just like the Shire recorded in The Lord of the Rings. It must exist because it is written about.

[robvalue]

Maybe it should be renamed Nozareth.

[Crossless2.0]

Nazareth?

I think it's a damn shame that their cover of "Love Hurts" is better known than the versions previously recorded by the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, and Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris.

And it has about as much to do with establishing the truth of the Christ myth as lamps in tombs or mere claims in historically suspect sources.

[downbeatplumb]

I've found Nazareth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04