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How has it been established that being a carpenter and being a cabinetmaker were mutually exclusive in Joseph's environment? I am aware of twentieth-century North American carpenters who also do cabinetry or other joining and I doubt that I am unique in that awareness. Was Joseph's situation so different that he as a carpenter could not also have been a joiner?
What does one profess in order to be a carpenter? Put another way, why should carpentry be considered a profession and not a skilled trade?
What evidence is there for the existence of a rumor (_sic_) that Joseph was a cabinetmaker, as opposed to a suspicion or a guess that he might have been one? If there is no such evidence, what is the point of asserting, in a forum for scholarly discussion, the existence of a rumor to that effect?
Best,
John Dillon
On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 1:56 pm, V. Kerry Inman wrote:
> 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
>
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