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## Abstract This is the first book on the archaeology of first-century Nazareth—Jesus’ home town in Galilee—written for a general audience by a mainstream professional archaeologist. 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. After discussing the archaeology and history of early first-century Nazareth (‘Jesus’ Nazareth’) overall, 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 befo
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ken Dark;
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192688996
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, History
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