The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus (68 page)

Bet Ha-Kerem Valley:
—19

Bet Netofa Valley:
—19

Beth Shan:
—29, 101
:
trade routes in relation to —19; Count Joseph and Epiphanius at —278

Beth Shan Valley:
  —100

Beth Shean:
See also
  Scythopolis; abandonment of —32

Beth Yerah:
—29; abandonment of —32

Beth Yerah ware:
— 9; Ben-Tor on —29

Bethlehem:
—211,
212,
213,
214,
215,
255; as Messianic city —213; events transposed to Nazareth from —215

Bethlehem Notseriyeh:
Nazareth in relation to —292

Beth-Shan
/
Beth Shearim:
 —189; catacombs at —161; sarcophagi in relation to   —189

Boat:
Galilee discovery  —119

Bordeaux Pilgrim:
—293

Boule:
—100

Bow-spouted oil lamps:
See also
Oil lamps.
—245,
246,
247

Bronze Age
: —80,
82,
83,
87,
89,
90, 141, 221,
243; Bagatti on —36; chronology of (chart) —27; Early Bronze Age — 27–29; finds at Nazareth —36; settlement near Nazareth beginning —25; Nazareth basin artefacts of; itemization of—  311

Bronze Age, Early:
Nazareth basin settlement in relation to —28

Bronze Age, MB IIA:
—39

Bronze Age, Middle & Late:
discussion of —35

Brow of a hill:
Lk 4:29 —306

Bultmann
,
R
.
:
   —203

Burial customs:
Jewish, rules concerning  —109

Burial practices:
Kathleen Kenyon on —32

Byblos
: destruction of —31

Byzantine Period:
  —114; shards datable to  —127; Nazareth movable finds of —271; no habitations found predating at Nazareth —36

Byzantine wall:
near CA —49

C

CA:
See
  Church of the Annunciation;
 

Caesarea (Maritima):
—154,
156; Herod’s creation of —154;
Eusebius living at —295; Titus celebrates at —266; synagogue inscription from, the Hapizzez in relation to —275

Caesarea Inscription:
no support for 1st-century habitation at Nazareth —277; the Hapizzes in relation to —275

Caligula:
 —155

Cambyses:
—62

Cambyses II:
  —62

Canaan
: reassertion of Egyptian control of —41

Canaanites:
—45,
46; enter Nazareth basin —45; Hyksos as, Egypt controlled by —41

Capernaum:
—254,
255; Loffreda in relation to —271; Nazareth
vs
. —298

Capitals:
of Crusader period, Viaud discovery of —238

Carpenter
; St. Joseph as  —81

Case for Christ, The
:
of Lee Strobel; critique of Zindler’s “Where Jesus Never Walked” —286

“
Casting down
”
:
site of, problems in discovery of   —202

Casuistry:
in writings on archaeology of Nazareth  —89

Catacombs:
at Beth Shearim   —161

Catholic Church:
attempts to reconcile archaeology with doctrines of  —65; doctrine of continuous habitation of  —61; doctrine of, Kopp‘s logic dependent upon  —68

Catholic literature:
—86

Cave:
—211,
215,
216,
219,
232,
255,
256,
261; as home of Virgin Mary —211; Egeria says Virgin Mary lived in —293

Cave complex:
wine-making in relation to   —195

Cave dwelling:
  —66

Cave of the Leap:
—25; prehistoric skulls discovered at —23

Caves:
—28,
30,
38; of Galilee; dampness of; troglodyte theory in relation to  66; with alleged domestic installations  147

Cavities:
in ground beneath Franciscan property —232

Cement:
  —63,
66

Cemetery:
Greek (Melchite) —37

Census:
—212,
213; Roman, not historical —213

Ceramica Comun Romana de la Galilea
:
of F. Fernandez  —116, 271

Cestius Gallus:
   —156;
enters Palestine with 12th legion   —156

Chalcolithic Age:
—27, 28; Bronze Age in relation to chronology of (chart) —27

Chancey, Mark:
on abandonment of Galilee  —60; 100; on circulation of Hasmonean coins  —146; on lack of settlement in Galilee interior  —100

Chapel of the Angel: —
212,
238,
244,
245,
247,
251,
254,
259,
260; kokh tomb near  —76

Chrestus:
in Suetonius —291

Christ:
Nazareth settled after time of —173; time of —151; chronology of (chart)   —153

Christendom:
vulnerability of to findings of archaeology —xii

Christian Archaeology:
  —72,
73

Christianity
: coming paradigm shift in —xiii

Christianity:
origins of, questions concerning   —157

Christians and the Holy Places
:
of Joan Taylor  —121

Chronology:
of Bronze Age (chart) —27; of Bronze and Iron Age artefacts from Nazareth (
Illus
. 1.5) —35; of Iron Age (chart) —43; of Nazareth —53; of Stone Age —23; Strange’s errors in  146

Chronology 732–332 BCE:
  (chart)  —59; evidencebacked vs. Bagatti’s  —82

Chronology 60 CE–135 CE:
(chart) —265

Church Fathers
: Jewishness of Nazareth in relation to —220

Church of St. Gabriel:
See
 
St. Gabriel, Church of

Church of St. Joseph:
—50.
See also
 St. Joseph, Church of.  —50, 69,
77,
87,
88,
89, 209,
221,
225,
229,
230,
232,
233,
237,
243

Church of the Annunciation:
—21,
25,
39,
46,
49,
50,
54, 65,
69,
71,
74,
76,
79,
83,
87,
91,
92, 211,
212,
214,
215,
217,
219,
229,
230,
232–234,
243,
246–248,
252,
254,
257,
258,
260; Alexandre on burial cave NE of —46; hollows in vicinity of —21; in photograph of modern Nazareth —26; Iron Age silos under —49; map showing placement of —24; principal focus of excavations —36; silo 22 beneath —50; silo 57 several m north of —50; Tomb 8 in relation to —39; agatti’s trench east of  —83; description of  —76; excavations attending replacement of  —71; oil lamp shard found in Silo 24 near  —113; Tomb 72 near  —105; excavation trench near  —142; movable artefacts from tombs near   —179; Strange alleges Herodian tomb near   —161; maiden home of Virgin Mary in relation to —211; tombs under, description and discussion of —243

Church of the Nutrition:
—214

Churches of the Annunciation:
Greek Orthodox
vs
. Roman Catholic —214

Circumcision:
prohibition of —268

Cire perdue:
—28

Cisterns:
—63, 87, 88, 104,  221,
233,
244,
246,
247,
248,
252,
256,
259; silos in relation to—  50; discussion of  80

Cistern 43:
—259

Cistern 44:
—259

Cities:
demise of —31

Codex Bezae
:
—306

Codex Vaticanus
:
Gospel of Matthew in; variants Nazaret, Nazara, and Nazareth in —302

Coins:
—63,
77,
83, 104,
146, 155,
196,
198,
199; absence of at Nazareth —139; absent from Nazareth —104; Hasmonean; absence of from Nazareth —146; earliest from
Constantius II —196; none from Roman Period at Nazareth   —165

Conon:
  —84, 251,
252,
253,
258; martyred in reign of Decius —258; Martyrium of —252

Conon, Martyrium of:
Bagatti’s name for Tomb 29  —84

Conquest model:
—44

Constantine the Great:
—220,
251,
257,
260; makes Joseph of Tiberas a count—  278; sanctions Christianity —292; tomb dating in relation to —251

Constantinople:
Count Joseph at —282

Constantius:
coin of  —147