You may have already heard about this discovery – Jesus’ possible home– and if you have been a long term reader of this website, you know what we think of this claim already.
A stone and mortar building under a convent in Nazareth, Israel, may have been Jesus’ home while under Joseph’s tutelage, according to a British associate professor of archaeology
Yes, anything is possible and Joseph probably had many skills as he did not have the internet, television, or other forms of entertainment distracting him from developing those talents.
The residence, found in the 1880s as nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth Convent stumbled upon its cistern, was constructed with professionalism commensurate with the Greek word used in Matthew 13:55 for Joseph’s occupation, Dark said. A tektón is a craftsman who works with wood, expert in carpentry but having other skills as well. He thinks Christ’s human father likely built the entire residence due to such ability.
Please keep in mind that Joseph would not be the only person with such qualifications in Nazareth or nearby towns. Anyone could have built this home at just about any time in the centuries prior to Jesus’ birth or after it.
The house the scholar has excavated since 2006 had a living room, storage area and courtyard as well as a second story for entertaining. “
Yet, no bedrooms…hmmm…
Professor Dark’s site is close to the Church of the Annunciation in the central part of modern Nazareth. Biblical researcher Victor Guérin identified the house as Joseph’s in the late 1880s, and work there continued nearly 50 years. In 1936, onetime architect Henri Senès, a Jesuit priest based in Jerusalem’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, began examining the home but published no findings, causing the house to disappear from Christian locations of interest.
The location of the church means nothing as it was built long after the fact and no one knows exactly where Jesus’ home is really located. Even an inscription, Jesus was here, would not be archaeologically, historically, or even factually significant or accurate.
Anyone can write those words at any time which is why we doubt the Khufu graffiti in the great pyramid as evidence for Egyptian construction of those pyramids.
Read the article for yourself and come to your own decision on its merits. We do not need Jesus’ home to know that he came to earth and died for our sins. Physical evidence from the past is meant to strengthen our faith not ruin it.
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