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NAZARETH AT THE TIME OF JESUS
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Nazareth was a small town in Galilee, said to been the home of a carpenter named Joseph, Mary his wife, and their son Jesus. According to the Gospels, Jesus grew up in Nazareth, before leaving to preach his message to the people of Israel. Later, he returned to his hometown to teach in the Synagogue and survived an attempt by the townspeople to throw him off a cliff.
Nazareth is now a predominantly Arab city of about 60,000 people, the majority of them Muslim. Some scholars have speculated that Nazareth did not exist at the time of Jesus and therefore Jesus was a 'mythical being'. However, recent archaeological finds have challenged the Mythicist position. [1] [2]