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Post by James Hannam on Dec 21, 2009 19:56:56 GMT
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Post by sandwiches on Dec 26, 2009 16:58:37 GMT
Apparently the Nazareth-mythers are not fooled: www.nazarethmyth.info/No “house from the time of Jesus” has been found at Nazareth!
On December 21, 2009, news regarding an excavation in Nazareth was released simultaneously to multiple press agencies around the globe. Many articles immediately touted discovery of house remains “from the time of Jesus,” a view allegedly expressed by the archaeologist herself. However, the brief official statement from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) does not support this thesis. The IAA release is the primary report and supersedes secondary sources such as articles in the press and interpretive remarks. This will continue until a scholarly report with independently verifiable itemizations, diagrams, and discussion appears in print.Of course the writers of the Gospels seem almost embarrassed by the fact that Jesus came from Nazareth: John 1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?But I gather the theory is that as Jesus was a "mythical" figure then the makers of the myth chose a backwater/non-existent place, that no-one could check up on, so they could invent a journey from that place to Bethlehem where the Messiah was supposed to be born. Hence one has to deny that Nazareth existed at the time of Jesus, whatever the evidence to the contrary. A bit like if you want to deny that Jesus existed then you have to deny any historical basis to the Gospels or the rest of The New Testament and claim that all non-Christian references such as those in Josephus are all "forgeries". The Nazareth-myth theory seems to fall down on (among other things) that it was firmly established in Mark that Jesus came from Nazareth without any reference to Bethlehem. |
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