Nazareth Never Existed in Jesus time, T623

Nazareth did not Exist in Jesus time.

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Nazareth Never Existed in Jesus time,

 

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Nazareth – The Town that Theology Built

 

The gospels do not tell us much about this 'city-Nazareth’,

 

However when we look for historical confirmation of this hometown of a god – surprise, surprise! – no other source confirms that the place even existed in the 1st century AD.

 

- Nazareth is not mentioned even once in the entire Old Testament.

The Book of Joshua (19.10,16) – in what it claims is the process of settlement by the tribe of Zebulon in the area – records twelve towns and six villages and yet omits any 'Nazareth' from its list.

 

- The Talmud, although it names 63 Galilean towns, knows nothing of Nazareth, nor does early rabbinic literature.

 

- St Paul knows nothing of 'Nazareth', Rabbi Solly's epistles (real and fake) mention Jesus 221 times, Nazareth Not at all.

 

- No ancient historian or geographer mentions Nazareth. It is first noted at the beginning of the 4th century.

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'Never heard of Nazareth' – Josephus -

 

In his histories, Josephus has a lot to say about Galilee (an area of barely 900 square miles). During the first Jewish war, in the 60s AD, Josephus led a military campaign back and forth across the tiny province. Josephus mentions 45 cities and villages of Galilee – yet Nazareth not at all.

 

Josephus does, however, have something to say about Japha (Yafa, Japhia), a village just one mile to the southwest of Nazareth where he himself lived for a time (Life 52).

 

A glance at a topographical map of the region shows that Nazareth is located at one end of a valley, bounded on three sides by hills. Natural access to this valley is from the southwest.

 

Before the first Jewish war, Japha was of a reasonable size. We know it had an early synagogue, destroyed by the Romans in 67 AD (Revue Biblique 1921, 434f). In that war, it's inhabitants were massacred (Wars 3, 7.31). Josephus reports that 15,000 were killed by Trajan's troops. The survivors – 2,130 woman and children – were carried away into captivity. A one-time active city was completely and decisively wiped out.

 

Now where on earth did the 1st century inhabitants of Japha bury their dead? In the tombs further up the valley!

 

With Japha's complete destruction, tomb use at the Nazareth site would have ended. The unnamed necropolis today lies under the modern city of Nazareth.

 

At a later time – as pottery and other finds indicate(see below) – the Nazareth site was re-occupied. This was after the Bar Kochba revolt of 135 AD and the general Jewish exodus from Judea to Galilee. The new hamlet was based on subsistence farming and was quite unrelated to the previous tomb usage by the people of Japha.

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The Gospels tell us that Jesus's home town was the 'City of Nazareth'.

 

Verses in Bible.

 

Comment;;

The reason why the city of Nazareth, which did not even appear in the Old Testament,

it was mentioned at the time of Jesus in New Testament,

because the Bible was written in later time, or

Verses were added after the 4th century.

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But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: And he came and dwelt in a CITY called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

(Matthew 2;22,23)

 

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a CITY of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

(Luke1;26,27)

 

And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the CITY of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David:

(Luke 2;3,4)

 

And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own CITY Nazareth. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

(Luke 2;39,40)