A consensus of archaeological evidence suggests that the Nazareth of Jesus' boyhood was a small village located on an unfertile chalk hill 1,200 feet or so above sea level, near today's bustling city, with no more than a few dozen families living there at any one time (which also means that the synagogue mentioned in Luke was probably very small and the rabbi likely not from the top of his class--Nazareth would have been a bad assignment). Historical evidence provides…
Michael BrunerOctober 16, 2006