Comments on: The Historicity of Nazareth https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/40659 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/40659#comment-43555 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:24:24 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=40659#comment-43555 In reply to ncmncm.

That’s a myth (or urban legend I guess?).

There are no such lists.

Josephus says there were a certain number of towns in Galilee (I can’t recall the exact number but in the ballpark of 240) but he does not name but a fraction of them. So, as he was the governor of Galilee he surely had a list of all 240 or so towns. But he didn’t give us that list.

Since he named so few of those hundreds of towns, we can’t make any argument from silence from this regarding which towns were “not” on his list.

]]> By: ncmncm https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/40659#comment-43554 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:38:21 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=40659#comment-43554 I encounter claims that there are lists (plural) of towns in the area in early 1st century that lack a Nazareth where a mention would be expected. (Sorry, don’t recall where I encountered the claim.) Are these just fever dreams? I could imagine tax records catalogging towns, but they would seem to need to have been in cuneiform on clay tablets to have survived, but that seems anachronistic, or inscribed in stone.

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