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8. I did not know that

Reply to stopbush (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 17, 2017, 05:56 PM

Dec 2017

James F. Strange, an American archaeologist, notes: "Nazareth is not mentioned in ancient Jewish sources earlier than the third century CE.
... artifacts uncovered from the area ... dated by historians, or by using radiocarbon dating, none are known to predate the 2nd century AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth#Roman_Empire_era

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