From there he moved south along the coast as far as Acre before turning inland to Nazareth, via the Mount Carmel Range.

In particular, his treatment of the Biblical gospels which he titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, but which subsequently became more commonly known as the Jefferson Bible, exhibits a strong deist tendency of stripping away all supernatural and dogmatic references from the Christ story.

They deal with the life of Jesus of Nazareth and with questions of ecclesiastical life and practise, which they resolve in a monastic-ascetic way.

* It has Jesus sailing across the Sea of Galilee to Nazareth – which is actually inland ; and from thence going " up " to Capernaum – which is actually on the lakeside ( chapters 20-21 ); though this is contested by Blackhirst, who says that the traditional location of Nazareth is itself questionable.

either netser, " branch ", or natsor, " to guard ", " to watch " ( the name which may have given that of Nazareth, and Sea of Tiberias ( John 6: 1, etc.

The film was shot on location in Monastir, Tunisia, which allowed the production to reuse sets from Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ).

Spin-offs include a script-book The Life of Brian of Nazareth, which is backed by MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK ... ( The printing of this book also caused problems, since there are rarely used technical laws in the UK against " blasphemy " dictating what can and cannot be written about religion – the publisher refused to print both halves of the book, and original prints were by two companies ).

" One plausible view is that Nazōraean ( Ναζωραῖος ) is a normal Greek adaptation of a reconstructed, hypothetical term in Jewish Aramaic for the word later used in Rabbinical sources to refer to Jesus .< ref > G. F. Moore, ‘ Nazarene and Nazareth ,’ in The Beginnings of Christianity 1 / 1, 1920 pp. 426-432, according to which Hebrew Nôṣri the gentilic used of Jesus from the Tannaitic period onwards, would have corresponded to a hypothetical Jewish Aramaic * Nōṣrāyā, which would have in turn produced * N < sup >< span style =" font-size: 80 %"> e </ span ></ sup > ṣōrāyā.

The ' nașirutha ' of the scriptures of the Mandeans refers to ' priestly craft ' not to Nazareth, which they identified with Qom.

) An 8th century AD Hebrew inscription, which was the earliest known Hebrew reference to Nazareth prior to the discovery of the inscription above, uses the same form.

Bagatti uncovered pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age ( 2200 to 1500 BC ) and ceramics, silos and grinding mills from the Iron Age ( 1500 to 586 BC ) which indicated substantial settlement in the Nazareth basin at that time.

From this scarce notice, it has been concluded that a small church which encompassed a cave complex might have been located in Nazareth in the early 4th century ," although the town was Jewish until the 7th century AD.

Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

During the ten days of fighting which occurred between the first and second truce, Nazareth capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel on 16 July, after little more than token resistance.

Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a natural bowl which reaches from 1, 050 feet ( 320 m ) above sea level to the crest of the hills about 1, 600 feet ( 490 m ).

* The Jesus Trail pilgrimage route connects many of the religious sites in Nazareth on a 60 km walking trail which ends in Capernaum.

Thus Andrew Lloyd Webber created two popular musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which filled traditional biblical stories with modern-day sensibilities ; and on a similar note, Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story shows a field of maize-corn in a Nazareth farming scene.

The holy site, known as the Grotto, that the Church of the Nativity sits atop, is today associated with the cave in which the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth occurred.

The tribe's territory started with Sarid ( Joshua 19: 10 ), which is supposed to have been Tel Shadud, some five miles southwest of Nazareth.

Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.

A few authors have argued that the absence of 1st and 2nd century AD textual references to Nazareth suggest the town may not have been inhabited in Jesus ' day.

By the late 19th century, Nazareth was a town with a strong Arab Christian presence and a growing European community, where a number of communal projects were undertaken and new religious buildings were erected.

The town was not a field of battle during 1948 Arab-Israeli War before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army had entered Nazareth.

The borough is named for the Biblical town of Nazareth, where Jesus Christ resided in his youth.

People in Nazareth celebrate this every year on June 11 and 12 by various organizations selling single red roses throughout the town.

Nazareth's topography can best be described as hilly, as the town itself sits atop a local outcropping underground of one of the richest veins of limestone in the U. S. Farmland surrounding Nazareth is quickly being devoured and turned into close sitting lots of suburban housing.

The town of Nazareth was established through the efforts of a Catholic priest, Joseph Reisdorff, who moved to the site in 1902 with four farmers interested in purchasing land in the area.

Nazareth had seventy-one residents by January 1904, and the town was platted latter that year.

The founders " were impressed with this high location and mutually selected the name " Tabor " after the Biblical name of Mount Tabor, a mountain near Nazareth, the town of Jesus ' childhood.

* Nazareth, a town on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Caiaphas brings Jesus before Pontius Pilate to be condemned to death, but after questioning Jesus, Pilate sends him instead to the court of Herod, as Jesus is from Herod's ruling town of Nazareth.

" Nasrani " is a term meaning " Christian "; it appears to be derived from Nazareth, the home town of Jesus.

Pittsford also has two colleges within five miles of its town center: Saint John Fisher College and Nazareth College.

It was planned as a Jewish town alongside the predominantly Arab city of Nazareth.

In 1226, Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned it as being " a town in Jund Filastin ," and formerly a Crusader castle between Zir ' in and Nazareth.

In his autobiography, called Dual Allegiance, Dunkelman tells the story of how, between July 8 and 18, 1948 during Operation Dekel, he led the 7th Brigade and its supporting units as it moved to capture the town of Nazareth.

Located six kilometers west of the city of Nazareth, many of its inhabitants became internally displaced refugees, after taking refuge in Nazareth and the neighbouring town of Yafa an-Naseriyye.

According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus selected this town as the center of his public ministry in the Galilee after he left the small mountainous hamlet of Nazareth ( Matthew 4: 12 – 17 ).

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, a tradition dating back to the 8th century identifies Cana with the modern Arab town of Kafr Kanna, about 7 km northeast of Nazareth, Israel.

Although according to the Gospel of Matthew, the term Nazarene was applied to Jesus due to his living in a town named Nazareth ( Gospel of Matthew 2. 23 ) and Paul was called a Nazarene by Tertullus in the Book of Acts, the sect of Nazarenes is not heard of again till the 4th Century.

A town of Nazareth may have been founded as a place of gathering of nazarites from the Nazarene sect.