Jesus’s Childhood Home Found Beneath Sisters Of Nazareth Convent?
JESUS’S CHILDHOOD HOME FOUND – A team of archaeologists claimed to find Jesus Christ’s childhood home.
According to a team led by Professor Ken Dark from the University of Reading, their 14 years of research had finally bared fruit. His team claimed that the remains from the site dated back to the 1st century.
Moreover, the team said that it could’ve potentially been built by the skilled craftsman, Saint Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary. The dwelling was also close to the Church of Annunciation which was discovered in the 1880s.
Furthermore, churches were supposedly built on top of it as a means of preserving the dwelling’s significance. The first set of explorations and archaeological studies were led by the mother superior of the convent, Mère Giraud.
According to her team, the excavations that were carried out until the 1930s revealed that this was indeed the home where Jesus of Nazareth grew up. Following this, another expedition was made between 1936 and 1964.
Several years later, Professor Ken Dark continued to research once again in 2006. Based on an article from Unilad, Dark said:
Five years of intensive research on the fieldwork data has consolidated the evidence for the first-century house and fourth-fifth century churches, shedding new light on them.
It has become clear that whoever built the house had a very good understanding of stone-working.
[This] would certainly be consistent with what we might expect from the home of a tekton (the term used for Joseph in the Gospels) which although usually translated as a carpenter, actually means a craftsman associated with building.
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