Originally posted by tabibito
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Nazareth, like Cana and the other hilltops around Sepphoris, was a walk away, and pillaging Roman soldiers looking for anything of value would have come to all of them. The soldiers themselves would have made for any worthless little places for the women. Pillaging, looting and raping.......
And if you had lived on anyn of those hills at that time with a family you would have legged it for your life.......which is why the place was probably empty before Romans got there and certainly empty after they had left.
There is a Bethlehem about 10 miles to the East North East of Nazareth and I wonder whether Joseph had evacuated to there......who knows? He certainly didn't need to go to Judea for the purpose of a tax census!
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