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

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

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