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Fox News with the in-depth report.
Here are the reasons Fox reports it may be Jesus' house:
1. "archaeologists led by Ken Dark, a professor at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, dated the house to the first century, and identified it as the place where people, who lived centuries after Jesus' time, believed Jesus was brought up."
2. The Byzantine Empire and Crusaders (who existed anywhere from 450 - 1100 years after Jesus purportedly lived) maybe believed it was his house because they built & repaired a church there. Alternatively, they may just have decided to build a church there for no reason at all. No one knows.
3. they found limestone cookware in the house "The limestone vessels suggest a Jewish family lived in the house, because Jewish beliefs held that limestone could not become impure. If a Jewish family lived here it would support the idea that this could have been Jesus' house."
A house from around the time of Jesus, where Jews maybe lived, could be Jesus' house, because some highly credulous and superstitious people that lived there hundreds of years later may have believed it was his house.
Seems like a big leap to write an article on it...
"Was this the house where Jesus grew up? It is impossible to say on archaeological grounds," Dark wrote in an article published in the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review. "On the other hand, there is no good archaeological reason why such an identification should be discounted."
so... run with it.
Here are the reasons Fox reports it may be Jesus' house:
1. "archaeologists led by Ken Dark, a professor at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, dated the house to the first century, and identified it as the place where people, who lived centuries after Jesus' time, believed Jesus was brought up."
2. The Byzantine Empire and Crusaders (who existed anywhere from 450 - 1100 years after Jesus purportedly lived) maybe believed it was his house because they built & repaired a church there. Alternatively, they may just have decided to build a church there for no reason at all. No one knows.
3. they found limestone cookware in the house "The limestone vessels suggest a Jewish family lived in the house, because Jewish beliefs held that limestone could not become impure. If a Jewish family lived here it would support the idea that this could have been Jesus' house."
A house from around the time of Jesus, where Jews maybe lived, could be Jesus' house, because some highly credulous and superstitious people that lived there hundreds of years later may have believed it was his house.
Seems like a big leap to write an article on it...
"Was this the house where Jesus grew up? It is impossible to say on archaeological grounds," Dark wrote in an article published in the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review. "On the other hand, there is no good archaeological reason why such an identification should be discounted."
so... run with it.
