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more scurrilous story he claims to have heard from a Palestinian Jew that Jesus's mother was successfully impregnated by a soldier by the name of Panthera: his story is so clearly polemical that it cannot be taken seriously? However, it does indicate that, less than one hundred years after Jesus's death, rumors about his illegitimate birth were already circulating throughout Palestine! Such rumors may have been current even ìn Yehoshua's own lifetime: when Yesh first begins preaching in his hometown of Natseret, he is also repeatedly confronted with the murmurings of neighbors, one of whom bluntly asks, "IS THIS NOT MIRYAM'S SON?" (MARK 6:3)! This is an asto-nishing statement, one that cannot be easily dismissed! Calling a first-born Jewish male in Palestine by his mother's name - that is, Ye-hoshua BAR MIRYAM, instead of Yehoshuah BAR YOSEPH - is just not only unusual, it is egregious! At the very least it is a deliberate slur with implications so obvious that later reductions of Mark were compelled to insert the phrase "son of the carpenter, and Miryam" into this verse.

An even more contentious mystery about Jesus involves his own marital status? Although there is no evidence in the New Testament to indicate whether Yesh wàs married, it would have been almost unthinkable for a 30-year-old Jewish male in Jesus's time nòt to have a wife! Celibacy was an extremely rare phenomenon in first-century Palestine. A handful of sects such as the aforementioned Essenes & another called the Therapeutae practiced celibacy, but these were quasimonastic orders; they not only refused to marry, but they even preferred to completely divorce themselves from society! Yesh did nothing of that sort as far as we know. Yet while it may be tempting to assume that Yesh wàs married, one cannot ignore the act that nowhere in all the words ever written about Yesh haNotsri ("Nazir"?) - from the canonical euangelical gospels to the letters of SP or even the Jewish & pagan polemics written against him - is there ever any mention of a wife or children. In the end, it is simply impossible to say much about Jesus's early life in Natseret because before he was declared messiah, it didn't really matter what kind of childhood a Jewish peasant from an insignificant hamlet in Galilee may or may not have had. After Yesh was declared messiah, the only aspects of his infancy & childhood that did matter were those that could be creati-vely imagined & managed to buttress whatever theological claim one was trying to make about his identity as 'Christ'.

For better or worse, the only access one can have to the real Yesh comes not from the stories that were told about him after his death, but rather from the smattering of facts we an gather from his life as part of a large Jewish family of woodworkers/builders struggling to survive in a small Galilean village like Natseret? He could have 'moved around' before the years he started acting 'in public' between his baptism in the Yardeenriver & roaming around the countryside from Levanon through the Yardeenvalley & finally into Yerushalayim?! ~
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