Tag: Historicity

Debbie Reese writes In Indian Country Today Media Network that the so-called “First Thanksgiving” does not do the time justice:

Before this St. Nicholas Day draws to a close, let’s take a few moments to ponder the life of this amazing historic figure:

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial ground in Kent where around a hundred people were laid to rest. . . Experts have found hardly any grave goods and since most of the bodies are lying east/west they are believed to be mainly Christian.

“After years of research specializing in the history and religion of Israel … I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, who came along a couple of centuries later, bears some of the blame for the most repeated of the answers: that Puritans were self-righteous and authoritarian, bent on making everyone conform to a rigid set of rules and ostracizing everyone who disagreed with them.

A New Testament scholar considers the question from several angles.

Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus’ childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood.