Read The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus Online
Authors: Rene Salm
[527]
NTA
(1991) I.423–24.
[528]
The
Protevangelium
(16.2) makes it clear that Mary’s perpetual chastity had been entrusted to Joseph for safeguarding.
[529]
PrJa
8:3; 17:1. Coincidentally, Julius Africanus locates Nazareth in Judea (
Euseb. Eccl. Hist
. I.7).
[530]
Suriano 160.
[531]
Both Luke and the
Protevangelium
have the manger. But in the latter, Jesus is placed in a manger to hide him from the soldiers of Herod (22.2). Luke lacks the massacre of the babies.
[532]
See Koester I:395.
[533]
NTA
v. 1, pp. 421
ff
.
[534]
Ibid
. p. 430.
[535]
Kopp 1939–40:117. The German offers an extended review of the history of the Church of St. Gabriel at Kopp 1939:253–285.
[536]
Kopp 1963:258.
[537]
Kopp 1939:261.
[538]
Geyer 1898:112.
[539]
Kopp 1939:264.
[540]
Kopp 1963:75. A plan of this waterworks is at Kopp 1938:257.
[541]
Kopp 1939:276, 277.
[542]
We shall consider the detailed topography of the venerated area below.
[543]
Bagatti 1960:319 (fig. 599).
[544]
Bagatti knew the Jewish tomb prohibition, for he mentions it already in 1937. See Baldi-Bagatti 1937:245 [23].
[545]
A strident anti-Nazareth stance is reflected in all four canonical gospels. The hillside venue of the village is discussed at Bagatti 1955:24.
[546]
Num 9:6; 19:11, 16, 18; 31:19.
[547]
Midrash Bava Batra
2:9.
[548]
The ell contained two spans (
zeret
), each made up of three handbreadths (
efa
) of four fingers (
eba
). A slightly larger ell is also mentioned at Ezek 40:5 and 43:13 (one handbreadth larger than the traditional ell).
[549]
E.g
., Epiphanius: “Until the reign of Constantine Nazareth had only Jewish inhabitants” (
Haer
. 1.136). Points (a) and (b) are discussed in Chapter 6; points (c) and (d) in Chapter 4.
[550]
Chapter 4, pp. 158
ff
.
[551]
Bagatti 1960:318. See Chapter 2, p. 77.
[552]
Bagatti 1960:328. The four soundings are: (a) 150 m from the Virgin’s Fountain on the Tiberias Road; (b) higher up the hillside next to Mary’s Well; (c) to the west of the Convent of the Dames de Nazareth; (d) south of the last-mentioned (exact location unspecified).
[553]
Bagatti 1960:326.
[554]
Kopp 1938:207.
[555]
Calculated from Tomb 73 to the 400 m contour line.
[556]
Dalman 65.
[557]
Kopp 1938:189.
[558]
“Nazareth,”
DJBP
:449.
[559]
Bagatti 1960:319 (fig. 599), marked “Ville antique.”
[560]
Asad Mansur (Sa‘d Ibn Mansur), History of Nazareth: From its Remotest Times to the Present Days. Cairo: Al Hillal, 1924 (338 pp., Arabic).
[561]
See Illus. 5.2.
[562]
Wenn er darum in einer Höhle rechts vom Eingang vom Grundstück von U.L. Frau vom Schrecken ebenfalls Gräber “von der Art der Kokim” signalisiert, so ist Zurückhaltung geboten. Kopp 1938:207, n. 2.
[563]
See Chapter 2, pp. 65
ff
; Chapter 3, 107
f
; and above p. ́́́́́́222.
[564]
E. Meyers and J. Strange 1981:56.
[565]
ABD
, “Nazareth,” p. 1050.
[566]
1 hectare = 10,000 square meters (the area of a square with sides of 100 m) = 2.471 acres.
[567]
Bagatti 1960:328.
[568]
ἕωϛ ο͗ϕρὐοϛ του̑ ο͗ʹρουϛ ἐϕ̕ οὐ̑ ἡ πόλιϛ αὐτω̑ν ὠ͕κοδόμητο.
[569]
Kopp 1938:260.
[570]
For the locations of the CJ and CA within the Nazareth basin, see Chapter 1, Illus. 1.3.
[571]
Bagatti 1955:6.
[572]
Viaud 141.
[573]
In 1754 the Franciscans took possession of the area above the putative house of St. Joseph and built a chapel there. It was destroyed by earthquake in 1838, and a second edifice constructed. The third edifice and present CJ dates to 1914.
[574]
The only fairly level area is in the venerated area is the western portion of the CA, where no habitations are claimed.
[575]
Kopp 1938:189.
[576]
Exc
:220.
[577]
Chapter 1, pp. 49
ff
.
[578]
Bagatti 1955:6.
[579]
Kopp 1938:187.
[580]
EAEHL
, “Nazareth,” p. 922.
[581]
Exc
. 52–60.
[582]
Viaud 35.
[583]
Revue Biblique
XL (1931), p. 556. Cf. Chapter 2, p. 65.
[584]
Exc
. 67.
[585]
“Nazareth,”
OEANE
, 1997.
[586]
Exc
. 234.
[587]
Bagatti 1960:328.
[588]
Kopp 1938:191.
[589]
Grotto A-R at Viaud fig. 36 (p. 81).
[590]
Viaud 115.
[591]
Exc
. 52–57.
[592]
Exc
. 51, 179–80, and Fig. 137. The pear-shaped silos have diameters of 5–6 feet. The same situation exists under the Church of St. Joseph (see below).
[593]
Exc
. 182 and Fig. 137.
[594]
See
Exc
. 183 and Fig. 137, top.
[595]
Aviam 2004:90.
[596]
Bagatti Nos. 34–38.
Cf
. Viaud Fig. 36 (p. 81).
[597]
A, B, and C have been added to reflect this work.
[598]
Taylor 250. Bagatti discusses the complex of the press at
Exc
. 52
ff
.
Cf
.
EAEHL
922.
[599]
No. 41 in Illus. 5.4.
[600]
On these capitals see Folda 1986; Barash 1964. Viaud describes the discovery on pages 55–57 of his book.
[601]
Chp. 2:9.
[602]
The slope is also given in
Exc
. Fig. 36 (p. 77).
[603]
Viaud 61.
[604]
This is Bagatti’s No. 40 (
Exc
. Fig. 16, p.47, discussion pp. 60–62).
[605]
Viaud Fig. 64.