the family of joseph was claiming a royal dissent. obviously the line of david was a very significant one. and so by definition, that would tend to set them apart from others within a given village or community. joseph we know a bit more about than the origins of mary. within the archaeological site, a series of domestic objects have been recovered. kept in this simple cabinet, they are tangible evidence that a woman once lived here, and they give us an insight into her life. a spindle well is a disk with a hole in the center, used as a weight in spinning of the yarn. if you think about a woman s
it s important particularly relationship to the house because you would not have a church being built here simply because and the church is built here because it s a holy place. whether st. joseph was ever buried here is impossible to know. the tomb has been empty since the crusades. but above it, the archaeological investigation uncovered a series of features that predated both joseph s tomb and the church of the nutrition. could they belong to a house? this is part of a cave, which is very typical, very common here in the hill country, and so we have a cave built into a house. realizing that there was a first century house that was signed was exciting in archaeological terms because it
this did alert me to the possibility that we d found the church of the nutrition. what ken dark says he s found in this underground site matches the description of the church of the nutrition, which according to legend was built on the site of jesus childhood home. according to a later tradition, there was also a tomb deep beneath the church belonging to none other than mary s husband. it was believed that the site contained the tomb of joseph. one of the strong clues that it is is because of the oral tradition that said this is the home of the just. and joseph of course is described in the scriptures as a just man.
that another family combining these three names existed. it is very likely, in my opinion, that the james on this ossuary is the james who is the brother of jesus. the likelihood that this could be some other family with those three names where the father is joseph and the two brothers are james and jesus seems very unlikely. 2,000 years ago everything changes for the brothers jesus and james when joseph dies. we really don t know when joseph died. but somewhere around 27 a.d. joseph is nowhere on the scene.
joseph was not knowing her in the carnal sense until she gave birth to jesus. now any normal reading of that sentence implies she went on to have more children after that, and his brothers and sisters are in fact his brothers and sisters. the bible tells us very little about the early life of jesus. the gospels really fast forward almost totally until he s 30 years old, and he s the son of god. what about all those missing years, when he was a teenager, playing around with his brothers, getting into trouble? written around 100 years after jesus death, the infancy gospel of thomas is a collection of stories about his childhood. there is a peculiar story about james, and it s an interesting picture of jesus and james together as children. joseph sent james into the