Childhood home of Jesus

Every year around Christmas lots of news messages are brought into attention where they claim to have found something about the Nazarene Jew Jeshua and his family.

From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. via http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_middle_east.html Category:Historical maps by William R. Shepherd (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Already in March the childhood home of Jesus may have been found underneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent in Nazareth, Israel, according to archaeologist Ken Dark.

Ken Dark wrote already about it in the March/April 2015 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, but now the news was updated.

Ken Dark believes that Nazareth was a larger town than traditionally understood and was particularly Jewish in its identity — as opposed to the Roman-influenced Sepphoris. This is partially based on the result of his survey of the Nahal Zippori region that separates Sepphoris and Nazareth geographically.

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Has the Childhood Home of Jesus Been Found?

Find also the free eBook The Galilee Jesus Knew which focuses on several aspects of Galilee: how Jewish the area was in Jesus’ time, the ports and the fishing industry that were so central to the region, and several sites where Jesus likely stayed and preached.

English: Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Israel Deutsch: Verkündigungsbasilika in Nazaret (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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