Excavations at other sites—some only a block or so away—have given us indications that the people of Nazareth were not poor. And so we should, I think, get out of our minds this sentimental, popular view that people in Galilee and villages like Nazareth grew up in a grinding poverty, place-bound, rustic isolation, and that sort of thing. There’s actual archaeological evidence of a measure of affluence. I’m not trying to say the wealthy and the powerful live right here at Nazareth, and I know it would