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Given that the only reference we have is one word in the NT, what proof
could there be? Please.
And how much wood would there have been around Nazareth anyway?
A tekton would have done any working with wood there was to be done --
fixing a door, making a box, repairing a wagon or a barrel, making a
yoke or a stool, carving a spoon.
DW
V. Kerry Inman wrote:
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> It has not been established that Joseph's profession was anything but a
> carpenter! It is an unsubstantiated rumor that he was a cabnetmaker! Can any
> one offer any proof? I have not seen it yet!
>
> V. Kerry Inman
>
> Quoting Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> From: "George R. Hoelzeman" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> So. . . . what would a 1st C. Jewish cabinetmaker have built? chests?
>>>
>> wooden plates....I seem to recall that the clothes cabinet did not come into
>> existence until the Quatrocento
>>
>> i think that the Egyptians (at least) produced a *lot* of very sophisticated
>> woodwork (nearly all of which has perished, remember) which would fall into
>> the catagory of "cabinetmaking" (joinery) --lots and lots of chests, shrines,
>> doors.
>>
>> the Romans, as well, had plenty of tools appropriate for joinery --chisels,
>> even metal planes.
>>
>>
>>> George (thinking Joseph may be more connected to his profession than
>>>
>> previously thought)
>>
>> c (thinking that it might not be possible to reconstruct what Joe's
>> profession
>> was, given the rather scanty condition of the evidence)
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