Archaeology of Jesus’ Nazareth Ken Dark 9780192688996 0192688995

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• ISBN 10: 0192688995
• ISBN 13: 9780192688996 
• Author: Ken Dark

Archaeology of Jesus’ Nazareth is the first book on the archaeology of first-century Nazareth: Jesus’ hometown in Galilee. Requiring no previous knowledge of biblical history or archaeology, it outlines the latest archaeological evidence, placing the Gospels’ account of Jesus’ youth in the Bible, and origins of Christian pilgrimage, in a new context. The book concentrates on the fascinating Sisters of Nazareth site in the centre of the present city. There, twenty-first century archaeological research identified a Byzantine pilgrimage church, which is likely to be the Church of the Nutrition – dedicated to the upbringing of Christ – the most important previously ‘lost’ early Christian church in the Holy Land. A seventh-century pilgrim said that a vaulted area under the Church of the Nutrition contained the actual house where Jesus was brought up by Mary and Joseph. Intriguingly, below the Byzantine church at the Sisters of Nazareth site a vaulted area preserved what are probably the ruins of a first-century house. Even before the Byzantine church was built, a – probably fourth-century – cave-church was constructed next to the first-century ruins, suggesting that they were assigned Christian religious importance. The similarities with the pilgrim’s description raise the question of whether the Sisters of Nazareth house really could have been the childhood home of Jesus. The book draws to its conclusion by means of a discussion of this historical existence for Jesus and the implications of the archaeology of Nazareth for understanding the Gospels.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. An accidental biblical archaeologist?
Chapter 2. Pilgrims, monks, and digs
Written sources for ancient Nazareth
Natural Nazareth
Roman-period rural settlement around Nazareth
Archaeological knowledge of Roman Nazareth
The Church of the Annunciation
Subsequent archaeological work in Nazareth
Evidence for first-century Nazareth
Chapter 3. Amazing discoveries
Mère Marie Giraud, convent superior and pioneering archaeologist
Exploring the Large Cave
Excavating on the surface
Chapter 4. Exploring the Venerated House
Henri Senès and his lifetime quest
Drawing the ruins
Senès in the museum
A curious case of coins
Senès digs
The Senès interpretation
The response to Senès’ interpretation
Chapter 5. Setting the record straight
Towards a new understanding
Interpreting the Early Roman-period evidence
Byzantine and Crusader evidence
Written descriptions of the Sisters of Nazareth site?
Chapter 6. Archaeology and first-century Nazareth
Introduction
What sort of place was first-century Nazareth?
What was the economy of first-century Nazareth?
Living in first-century Nazareth
Was the Sisters of Nazareth site really where Jesus grew up?
Written sources for the existence of Jesus
Written sources and memory
Identifying pilgrimage sites
What if the Sisters of Nazareth house really was Jesus’ childhood

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