much the same thing, “Love manual work and hate mastery.”28 Many others shared this view. Arrogance may have been prevalent among the scribes, but they were not effete academicians. They demanded that everyone teach his son a trade, and many of them were themselves artisans. Carpenters were regarded as particularly learned. If a difficult problem was under discussion, they would ask, “Is there a carpenter among us, or the son of a carpenter, who can solve the problem for us?”29 Jesus was a carpenter