Caesarea Maritima - cluster of courses in region support Har Nitai as Nazareth

[Steven Avery]

the research of Frederic Parpinel - the 24 courses
https://purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/the-research-of-frederic-parpinel-the-24-courses.1271/

Caesarea Maritima - cluster of courses in region support Har Nitai as Nazareth
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...-in-region-support-har-nitai-as-nazareth.534/

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This is new information, largely from Frederic Parpinel.

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[Steven Avery]

Riesner

d publicly in Hebrew.
IV. Why Was Nazareth Called Nazareth?
In 1962 two fragments of a 3/4th-century inscription were discovered at Caesarea Maritima, containing a list of priestly courses and their settlements, either from the time after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE or after the Bar-Kokhba war (132–135 CE).46 Another fragment had been found earlier at Ashkelon and later other fragments from Kissufim and Tel Rehov,47 and possibly even from Nazareth,48 became known. The fragments for into a complete list of the twenty-four priestly courses, included in two 9th-century lamentations on the destruction of the temple for the 9th of Ab by Eleazar ha-Qalir,49 which proves the faithful preservation of these lists. In one of the fragments from Caesarea the spelling נצרת for Nazareth is attested (IEJ 12, 1962, 138). Jerome in his liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum knew this spelling (CCSL 62,24–27). Although צ is usually transliterated by σ and not by ζ, numerous exceptions to this rule exist in the Septuagint and in Josephus.50 The etymological derivation of the place name Nazareth is disputed,51 but Hans Peter Rüger did a very thorough and convincing philological analysis of the name.52 The normal Hebrew form was năṣ·rat (ֳנ ְצ ַרת ). In the New Testament Ναζαρέθ, or sometimes Ναζαρέτ, goes back to the Hebrew secondary form nāṣæræt (ָנ ֶצ ֶרת ). The form Ναζαρά, attested by the better