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<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: x-large; color: #0000ff;">Standford Rives on Birthplace of Jesus</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Excerpt from <em>Original Gospel of Matthew: Appendices</em>&nbsp; Vol. 2 pages 148-50 -- (available in our Amazon bookstore) without its footnotes.&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
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<h1 class="Heading1" style="text-indent: 0pt; margin: 14pt 0pt 6pt; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"></span></strong></h1>
<h1 class="Heading1" style="text-indent: 0pt; margin: 14pt 0pt 6pt; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;" data-mce-mark="1">Is It Nazara? Or Is It Nazareth?</span></strong></span></h1>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span>A late Greek translator misread&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span>Nazara&mdash;a city in the south&mdash;as Nazareth&mdash;a city in the north that did not likely exist until several more decades after Christ. Scholars have concurred on this point because the early church writers such as&nbsp;Origen circa 207 AD and&nbsp;Jerome in the early 400s repetitiously quote numerous Matthean passages speaking of Nazara not Nazareth. Origen did not know of any manuscript that spelled it as Nazareth. Also, in the Shem-Tob&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span>Matthew 3:13, it speaks of Nazarel which is close to Nazara.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-602967"></a>Professors Jeffrey J. B&uuml;tz and James&nbsp;<a name="marker-602966"></a>Tabor in <em>The Secret Legacy of Jesus</em> (Bear &amp; Company, 2010) at 75-76 explain that Jesus was likely called &lsquo;Jesus the Nazarene&rsquo; and not &ldquo;Jesus of Nazareth.&rdquo; They explain &ldquo;many scholars now make the argument that the name Jesus of Nazareth was a mistranslation of the original phrase, Jesus the Nazarene, and that it did not refer to the town of Nazareth at all.&rdquo; They note that Nazareth may not even have been in existence in Jesus&rsquo; day.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-602968"></a>This explains why in the earliest church, Christ and Christians were called Nazarenes. See&nbsp;<a name="marker-602969"></a>Matt. 2:23, &ldquo;fulfill be called a Nazarene&rdquo;;&nbsp;<a name="marker-602970"></a>Luke 24:19 &ldquo;Jesus the Nazarene&rdquo;;<a name="marker-602971"></a>Acts 24:5 &ldquo;sect of the Nazarenes.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span>The <em>New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia</em> concurs: &ldquo;In the time of Eusebius and St. Jerome (Onomasticon), its name was&nbsp;Nazara (in modern Arabic, en Nasirah), which therefore, seems to be the correct name; in the New Testament we find its derivatives written Nazarenos, or Nazoraios, but never Nazaretaios. The etymology of Nazara is neser, which means &lsquo;a shoot.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-603403"></a>While later Greek manuscripts have Matthew 4:13 say Nazareth, the earliest Greek manuscripts of Matthew must have likewise spelled the word as &ldquo;<a name="marker-603404"></a>Nazara.&rdquo; We know this because this is how it was quoted in the early church writings. See, Theodor Keim, Edmund Martin Geldart, <em>The History of Jesus of Nazara</em> (Williams and Norgate, 1879) Volume 4 at 108 fn. 1 (&ldquo;<a name="marker-603405"></a>Origen...prefers to write nazara in 10:16 of his commentary on Matthew three times...[and seven times in his commentary on John]. Jerome gives it nomine Nazara....&rdquo;)</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-620189"></a>Rather than anyone realizing a translation error, it was later assumed Nazara was the same as a city later known as Nazareth. Thus, &ldquo;Nazara&rdquo; came to be &ldquo;generally considered the earliest form of the name [Nazareth] in Greek.&rdquo; (&ldquo;Nazareth,&rdquo; <em>Wikipedia</em>.)</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-603406"></a>In Matthew 4:13 in the Shem-Tob, we see it uses <em>Nazerel</em>, in keeping with the earliest Greek tradition.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-603407"></a>This helps explain the prophecy that &ldquo;he shall be called a nazarene.&rdquo; The name of the town<em> nazara</em> / <em>nazerel</em> not&nbsp;<a name="marker-603408"></a>Nazareth was in view. This has etymological Messianic associations that are important which the Nazareth mistranslation destroys. Nicholson explains that in&nbsp;<a name="marker-603409"></a>Isaiah 11:1, the Messiah is a &ldquo;branch&rdquo; (netser) from Jesse&rsquo;s root. In Zechariah&nbsp;6:12, we read: &ldquo;Branch (NTSR) shall he be called.&rdquo; Nicholson then notes: &ldquo;It is generally held that there is a real etymological connexion between <em>Nazara</em> and <em>netser</em>.&rdquo; (Nicholson: 33.) Thus, calling Jesus a Branch was to call him a <em>netser</em> in Hebrew. This was the root meaning of Nazara.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a name="pgfId-603401"></a>It thus appears the correct name for Jesus&rsquo; early residence was Nazara. It is a key change in spelling so we see a fulfilled prophecy of Zechariah 6:12. See also Isaiah 11:1.</span></p>
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<h1 class="Heading1" style="text-indent: 0pt; margin: 14pt 0pt 6pt; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Netser-Branch Prophecy Behind &lsquo;He Will Be Called A Nazarene&rsquo;</span></strong></span></h1>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Jerome said the Hebrew OT had a prophecy that Messiah would be called a &ldquo;Nazarene.&rdquo; Many Christians wonder where can this be found. It requires knowledge of Hebrew to recognize it. Jerome is focusing upon the word Branch in Hebrew which is <em>Netser</em>. The Septuagint mistranslated it in 257 BC with a Greek word meaning &ldquo;flower&rdquo; rather than Branch in Zechariah 6:12. Thus, Jerome argued the verse had been lost by mistranslation in the Greek Septuagint. Netser was the word he focused upon.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span>Zechariah 6:12 in modern Bibles follows the Hebrew, not the Septuagint Greek of 257 BC. The word &ldquo;branch&rdquo; is <em>netser</em> in Hebrew&mdash;the root word for the city of Nazara&mdash;the true name of the town where Jesus lived at one time. Thereby we realize Jerome was recognizing Zechariah 6:12 is the verse Matthew meant as the prophecy &lsquo;he will be called a Nazarene.&rsquo; Today Zechariah 6:12 reads about a Messiah figure: &ldquo;the man whose name is The BRANCH (Heb. NTSR).&rdquo;</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">END: Excerpt from Standford Rives, <em>Original Gospel of Matthew: The Appendices</em> (2014) at 148-150 available in our Amazon bookstore at <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jwoogm-20">http://astore.amazon.com/jwoogm-20</a>.</span></p>
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<hr /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">200 Christian Era Reference to Nazara</span></strong></span>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Nazara was in the South in Judea, not Nazareth which is in the north. As Wikipedia's article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea">"Judea</a>" explains:</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 30px; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In 200 CE&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Julius_Africanus" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" title="Sextus Julius Africanus">Sextus Julius Africanus</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">, cited by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" class="mw-redirect" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" title="Eusebius of Caesarea">Eusebius</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">&nbsp;(</span><em style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Church History</em><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">1.7.14), described "Nazara" (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" title="Nazareth">Nazareth</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">) as a village in Judea.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea#cite_note-7" style="color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 30px; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">FOOTNOTE 17:</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 30px; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"A few of the careful, however, having obtained private records of their own, either by remembering the names or by getting them in some other way from the registers, pride themselves on preserving the memory of their noble extraction. Among these are those already mentioned, called Desposyni, on account of their connection with the family of the Saviour. Coming from <em><strong>Nazara and Cochaba, villages of Judea</strong></em>, into other parts of the world, they drew the aforesaid genealogy from memory and from the book of daily records as faithfully as possible." (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" class="mw-redirect" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6000003814697px; line-height: 20.1599998474121px; background: none rgba(0, 127, 255, 0.133333);" title="Eusebius of Caesarea">Eusebius Pamphili</a>, <em>Church History</em>,&nbsp;Book 1, chapter VII,&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">&sect; 14)</span></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Luke gets this wrong in Luke 1:26. Let's read 1:26 and 27 together, and we will see why this text is demonstrably added to Luke after later doctrines were added to Luke as well:</span></p>
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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000099;">Luke 1:26</span></em></strong>&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #000099;">&nbsp;&nbsp; And in the sixth month&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">[of Elisabeth's pregnancy]</span><span style="color: #000099;">&nbsp;the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Elisabeth was "well stricken in age" while Mary was a young teenage girl.&nbsp; Elisabeth was now six months pregnant and Gabriel was sent with another very important message from God to her cousin Mary.</strong></span></p>
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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000099;">Luke 1:27</span></em></strong>&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #000099;">&nbsp;&nbsp; To a&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #660000;">virgin</span><span style="color: #000099;">&nbsp;espoused</span><span style="color: #000000;"></span><span style="color: #000099;">to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #660000;">virgin's</span><span style="color: #000099;">&nbsp;name&nbsp;<em>was</em>&nbsp;Mary.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>So this has Jesus born in Nazareth, a city of Galilee. As we see from Eusebius, and the earliest gospels, this was Nazara Of Judea.</strong></span></p>
<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Note in the same context, in verse 27, there is now a mention of a "virgin" so as to fulfill the Septuagint mis-translation of the prophecy from Isaiah 7:14 about a young maiden as about a 'young virgin.' So the hand of an uninspired redactor is seen in 2 ways: 1. the erroneous mention of Galilee of Nazareth in Luke 1:26; and 2. the erroneous reference to Mary as a virgin. For if she gave birth, and no seed of David germenated in her, then Jesus is not of the Davidic line, and cannot be messiah. See our <a href="/topicindex/225-virgin-birth-issues.html">Article on the Virgin Birth</a>.</strong></span></p>
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