BOOK PICK: In Paul Thigpen’s latest, ‘we see not only Joseph, Jesus, Mary, and their contemporaries but in a certain sense ourselves as well. Held up as a mir.
so instead they go to nazareth which was, according to luke, mary s childhood home. when matthew has the family coming back from the flight into egypt, it really is a moment where the story shifts over to mary s world. jesus will spend the next 30 years of his life living in nazareth. the town of nazareth in the first century ad is a bit of a mystery. we know nothing about it before the first century, and we know very little about it in the first century ad. nazareth was a very small village, so small that it doesn t show up in any of the literature of the day, and it s peasant society, so it was all communal, and they didn t have much. something i think we have to remember about mary returning to nazareth is that in judaism, the