ra38 the problem with Natsereth is that it was ~~~


A
"CITY" OF
MUD AND BRICK?!

Even the most elaborate buildings,
such as they were, would have been constructed of stone:
there were wooden beams in the roofs, and surely the doors would have been made of wood!
A handful of Nazareans may have been able to afford wooden furniture - a table, some stools -
and perhaps a few could have owned wooden yokes & plows with which to sow their meager plots of land?

But even if one considers TEKTON to mean an artisan who deals in any aspect of the building trades,
the 100 or so impoverished families of a very modest & utterly forgettable village such as Natsereth, most of whom
themselves barely lived above substance level, could in no way have sustained Yehoshua's family!

As with most artisans & day laborers, Yesh & his brothers & sisters would have had to go to bigger towns or cities to ply their trade,
and fortunately, Natsereth was just barely a day's walk away from one of the largest and most affluent cities in Galilee - the capital city, Sepphoris aka Tsipporim: a sophisticated urban metropolis, as rich as Nazareth was poor! Whereas Nazareth then had not yet even one single paved road, the roads in Sepphoris were already new wide avenues surfaced with polished slabs of stone & lined with two-story homes boasting open courtyards & private rock-cut cisterns. While Nazareans shared a single public bath, in Sepphoris, two separate aqueducts merged in the center of the city, providing ample water to the large lavish baths and public latrines serving nearly the entire population of some 40.000 inhabitants?

There were Roman villas & palatial mansions in Sepphoris, some covered in colorful mosaïcs featuring sprightly nude juveniles hunting fowl, garlanded women bearing baskets of fruit, young boys dancing & playing many musical instruments!

A Roman theater in the center of town seated 4500, with an intricate web of roads & trade routes connected Sepphoris to Judaea & the whole rest of towns of Galilee, making the city a major hub of Greek culture & widespread 'international' commerce ~~~~
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