The Myth of Nazareth The Invented Town of Jesus by René Salm

Author:René Salm [Salm, René]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American Atheist Press
Published: 2015-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

The necropolis. – The map given [in] fig. 599 locates the ancient remains of Nazareth: one notes there the ensemble of the Annunciation, at the center, and in the environs, marked in black, a series of tombs to the north, to the west and also some to the south. These are the remains actually known of the ancient necropolis…[553]

In contrast, a glance at Illus. 5.2 shows that the tombs to both east and west of the valley floor form a larger “ring” that is eminently more probable than the one perceived by Kopp and Bagatti. Those tombs localize the settlement on the valley floor, not on the hillside, and not in the venerated area (which itself contains tombs).

Very little of the Nazareth basin has ever come under the archaeologist’s spade, and most of the area is now thoroughly urban and built over. It is not impossible that other, undiscovered, tombs of the Later Roman period exist in the very hillside area that Bagatti signals as the ville antique.

A generation before Bagatti, Fr. Clemens Kopp strove mightily to reconcile the many tombs that dot the hillside with scripture. Yet he, too, contrives to locate the village on the slope:

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