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On 14/09/2006 17:16, JBarach AT aol.com wrote:
> ...
>
> The  name by which Jesus was most often designated in Israel already betrays
> something of the disparagement by others and of his own meekness.  It was
> normal for people to be named after their father (e.g., Simon, the son of 
> Jonah;
>  John and Jacob, the sons of Zebedee).  In Jesus’ case, however, people
> deviated from that rule.  He is designated with the name of the place where 
>  He
> grew up.  That is Nazareth, a virtually unknown village in the northern  
> area,
> Galilee.  There is something of a condescending tone in the surname  
> “Nazarene”
> : “the villager from Galilee!”
>

Could this also have suggested that he was born outside of marriage, as
also in the Gospels, and implied by the Talmudic (?) story that his
natural father was a Roman soldier?

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