A small Jewish village in the hills of Lower Galilee, a few kilometres from the city of Sepphoris. Jesus grew up here and was known as ‘the Nazarene’. Excavations have found first-century houses, tombs and agricultural installations.
The ‘Nazareth inscription’, an imperial edict against tomb violation, was sent to Paris from Nazareth in 1878, but its findspot is unknown, and a 2020 isotope analysis of the marble suggests that the stone came from the island of Kos rather than from Galilee.
Where to start
Every mention
19 writings- AD 20The Nazareth inscriptionStones and Scrolls6×
- AD 55Q: The Sayings Source (a Scholarly Reconstruction)The Other Gospels1×
- AD 70The Gospel of MarkThe New Testament5×
- AD 85The Gospel of MatthewThe New Testament5×
- AD 85The Gospel of LukeThe New Testament8×
- AD 85The Acts of the ApostlesThe New Testament8×
- AD 95The Gospel of JohnThe New Testament4×
- AD 150The Infancy Gospel of ThomasThe Other Gospels1×
- AD 170Tatian’s DiatessaronThe Other Gospels10×
- AD 225The Gospel of PhilipThe Other Gospels7×
- AD 550Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a: the baraita on YeshuWitnesses Outside the Church7×
- AD 550Hone’s Apocryphal New Testament: the Arabic Infancy Gospel and the Abgar LettersThe Other Gospels3×
- 2026Guide to the research and the world before JesusThe Dossier1×
- 2026Jesus’s life: a chronological catalogue of the canonical narrativesThe Dossier9×
- 2026The prophecies associated with Jesus: a critical catalogueThe Dossier3×
- 2026The documentary record of Jesus and the movements that interpreted himThe Dossier1×
- 2026From medieval devotion to the presentThe Dossier1×
- 2026What the evidence can and cannot establishThe Dossier3×
- 2026Sources and further readingThe Dossier3×