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Bet Ha-Kerem Valley:
—19
Bet Netofa Valley:
—19
Beth Shan:
—29, 101
:
trade routes in relation to —19; Count Joseph and Epiphanius at —278
Beth Shan Valley:
  —100
Beth Shean:
See also
  Scythopolis; abandonment of —32
Beth Yerah:
—29; abandonment of —32
Beth Yerah ware:
— 9; Ben-Tor on —29
Bethlehem:
—211,
212,
213,
214,
215,
255; as Messianic city —213; events transposed to Nazareth from —215
Bethlehem Notseriyeh:
Nazareth in relation to —292
Beth-Shan
/
Beth Shearim:
 —189; catacombs at —161; sarcophagi in relation to   —189
Boat:
Galilee discovery  —119
Bordeaux Pilgrim:
—293
Boule:
—100
Bow-spouted oil lamps:
See also
Oil lamps.
—245,
246,
247
Bronze Age
: —80,
82,
83,
87,
89,
90, 141, 221,
243; Bagatti on —36; chronology of (chart) —27; Early Bronze Age — 27–29; finds at Nazareth —36; settlement near Nazareth beginning —25; Nazareth basin artefacts of; itemization of—  311
Bronze Age, Early:
Nazareth basin settlement in relation to —28
Bronze Age, MB IIA:
—39
Bronze Age, Middle & Late:
discussion of —35
Brow of a hill:
Lk 4:29 —306
Bultmann
,
R
.
:
   —203
Burial customs:
Jewish, rules concerning  —109
Burial practices:
Kathleen Kenyon on —32
Byblos
: destruction of —31
Byzantine Period:
  —114; shards datable to  —127; Nazareth movable finds of —271; no habitations found predating at Nazareth —36
Byzantine wall:
near CA —49

 

C

CA:
See
  Church of the Annunciation;
 
Caesarea (Maritima):
—154,
156; Herod’s creation of —154;
Eusebius living at —295; Titus celebrates at —266; synagogue inscription from, the Hapizzez in relation to —275
Caesarea Inscription:
no support for 1st-century habitation at Nazareth —277; the Hapizzes in relation to —275
Caligula:
 —155
Cambyses:
—62
Cambyses II:
  —62
Canaan
: reassertion of Egyptian control of —41
Canaanites:
—45,
46; enter Nazareth basin —45; Hyksos as, Egypt controlled by —41
Capernaum:
—254,
255; Loffreda in relation to —271; Nazareth
vs
. —298
Capitals:
of Crusader period, Viaud discovery of —238
Carpenter
; St. Joseph as  —81
Case for Christ, The
:
of Lee Strobel; critique of Zindler’s “Where Jesus Never Walked” —286

Casting down

:
site of, problems in discovery of   —202
Casuistry:
in writings on archaeology of Nazareth  —89
Catacombs:
at Beth Shearim   —161
Catholic Church:
attempts to reconcile archaeology with doctrines of  —65; doctrine of continuous habitation of  —61; doctrine of, Kopp‘s logic dependent upon  —68
Catholic literature:
—86
Cave:
—211,
215,
216,
219,
232,
255,
256,
261; as home of Virgin Mary —211; Egeria says Virgin Mary lived in —293
Cave complex:
wine-making in relation to   —195
Cave dwelling:
  —66
Cave of the Leap:
—25; prehistoric skulls discovered at —23
Caves:
—28,
30,
38; of Galilee; dampness of; troglodyte theory in relation to  66; with alleged domestic installations  147
Cavities:
in ground beneath Franciscan property —232
Cement:
  —63,
66
Cemetery:
Greek (Melchite) —37
Census:
—212,
213; Roman, not historical —213
Ceramica Comun Romana de la Galilea
:
of F. Fernandez  —116, 271
Cestius Gallus:
   —156;
enters Palestine with 12th legion   —156
Chalcolithic Age:
—27, 28; Bronze Age in relation to chronology of (chart) —27
Chancey, Mark:
on abandonment of Galilee  —60; 100; on circulation of Hasmonean coins  —146; on lack of settlement in Galilee interior  —100
Chapel of the Angel: —
212,
238,
244,
245,
247,
251,
254,
259,
260; kokh tomb near  —76
Chrestus:
in Suetonius —291
Christ:
Nazareth settled after time of —173; time of —151; chronology of (chart)   —153
Christendom:
vulnerability of to findings of archaeology —xii
Christian Archaeology:
  —72,
73
Christianity
: coming paradigm shift in —xiii
Christianity:
origins of, questions concerning   —157
Christians and the Holy Places
:
of Joan Taylor  —121
Chronology:
of Bronze Age (chart) —27; of Bronze and Iron Age artefacts from Nazareth (
Illus
. 1.5) —35; of Iron Age (chart) —43; of Nazareth —53; of Stone Age —23; Strange’s errors in  146
Chronology 732–332 BCE:
  (chart)  —59; evidencebacked vs. Bagatti’s  —82
Chronology 60 CE–135 CE:
(chart) —265
Church Fathers
: Jewishness of Nazareth in relation to —220
Church of St. Gabriel:
See
 
St. Gabriel, Church of
Church of St. Joseph:
—50.
See also
 St. Joseph, Church of.  —50, 69,
77,
87,
88,
89, 209,
221,
225,
229,
230,
232,
233,
237,
243
Church of the Annunciation:
—21,
25,
39,
46,
49,
50,
54, 65,
69,
71,
74,
76,
79,
83,
87,
91,
92, 211,
212,
214,
215,
217,
219,
229,
230,
232–234,
243,
246–248,
252,
254,
257,
258,
260; Alexandre on burial cave NE of —46; hollows in vicinity of —21; in photograph of modern Nazareth —26; Iron Age silos under —49; map showing placement of —24; principal focus of excavations —36; silo 22 beneath —50; silo 57 several m north of —50; Tomb 8 in relation to —39; agatti’s trench east of  —83; description of  —76; excavations attending replacement of  —71; oil lamp shard found in Silo 24 near  —113; Tomb 72 near  —105; excavation trench near  —142; movable artefacts from tombs near   —179; Strange alleges Herodian tomb near   —161; maiden home of Virgin Mary in relation to —211; tombs under, description and discussion of —243
Church of the Nutrition:
—214
Churches of the Annunciation:
Greek Orthodox
vs
. Roman Catholic —214
Circumcision:
prohibition of —268
Cire perdue:
—28
Cisterns:
—63, 87, 88, 104,  221,
233,
244,
246,
247,
248,
252,
256,
259; silos in relation to—  50; discussion of  80
Cistern 43:
—259
Cistern 44:
—259
Cities:
demise of —31
Codex Bezae
:
—306
Codex Vaticanus
:
Gospel of Matthew in; variants Nazaret, Nazara, and Nazareth in —302
Coins:
—63,
77,
83, 104,
146, 155,
196,
198,
199; absence of at Nazareth —139; absent from Nazareth —104; Hasmonean; absence of from Nazareth —146; earliest from
Constantius II —196; none from Roman Period at Nazareth   —165
Conon:
  —84, 251,
252,
253,
258; martyred in reign of Decius —258; Martyrium of —252
Conon, Martyrium of:
Bagatti’s name for Tomb 29  —84
Conquest model:
—44
Constantine the Great:
—220,
251,
257,
260; makes Joseph of Tiberas a count—  278; sanctions Christianity —292; tomb dating in relation to —251
Constantinople:
Count Joseph at —282
Constantius:
coin of  —147

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