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The family home and workshop in Nazareth

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The family home and workshop in Nazareth
Joseph and Mary's one-room stone house in Nazareth, with the added workshop where the boy Jesus made yokes (122:6, 124:1.7).

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  • The home lay near the high hill in the northerly part of Nazareth, on the outskirts, some distance from the village spring in the east of town; south-east of the hill's southern promontory, midway between its base and the road toward Cana (122:6.1)
  • A one-room stone house with a flat roof and an adjoining building for the animals; furniture: a low stone table, earthenware and stone dishes and pots, a loom, a lampstand, several small stools, sleeping mats on the stone floor (122:6.2)
  • In the back yard near the animal annex, a shelter covering the oven and a two-person grain mill (122:6.2)
  • Meals around the stone table from a common pot; a small flat clay olive-oil lamp (122:6.3)
  • After Martha's birth Joseph added a large room used as carpenter shop by day and bedroom by night; a small workbench was built for Jesus, who became expert at making yokes (122:6.3, 124:1.7)
  • Joseph's separate workshop stood near the village spring and the caravan tarrying lot: yokes, plows, woodwork, leather, rope and canvas (123:1.6)
  • Garden walls completely surrounded the home plot, with vines and flowers; the roof was the summer bedroom (123:2.14); back-yard stone stairs led up to a canvas-roofed bedroom (123:4.5)
  • Mary kept a dovecote on top of the animal house (123:4.4); the family cow; Jesus learned to weave and was an expert loom operator by ten (123:5.15)
  • Cool sea breeze from the west on summer days; dry and rainy seasons only (124:1.10)
  • JESUS'S APPEARANCE: a well-nigh perfect child physically (123:2.15); at about 13 his voice began to change (124:5.1); by 18-19 full physical growth, 'a virile and comely youth', eye kind but searching, smile engaging, voice musical but authoritative (127:1.2)
  • JESUS'S APPEARANCE: physically strong and robust, a healthy and well-proportioned body (127:1.3); 'one of the most robust and refined specimens of manhood' since Adam, physical development superb (128:6.2)
  • JESUS'S APPEARANCE: the usual paintings are 'most unfortunate'; he was not a mild, sweet, gentle mystic; a dignified, natural manhood (141:3.6)
  • JESUS'S APPEARANCE: recognizably a Jew by appearance and dress, Galilean by accent (143:5.2); Michael planned to appear as an average man (122:1.3)
  • ANCESTRY: Joseph a Hebrew with many non-Jewish strains, lines back through Sumerians, Nodites and the blue man (122:1.1); Mary more a composite of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian stocks (122:1.2)
  • NOT GIVEN ANYWHERE in Part IV: height, hair colour, eye colour, beard, skin tone

Interpreted

  • Scene set about A.D. 6-7, Jesus about twelve or thirteen, at his bench in the new workshop room shaping a yoke
  • First-century Galilean house built of local limestone fieldstone with a packed-earth-and-timber flat roof
  • Jesus drawn as an average, healthy, sturdy Galilean Jewish boy with olive skin and dark hair, deliberately not idealized

Invented for the picture

  • Faces, hair and eye colour of all family members, exact layout of the yard, which siblings are present

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