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Re: Re: Nazareth Tombs



JRW writes:

>As postscript to my previous posting (having now seen this) I would point out
>that if they WERE called *natzranim* (from an existing town called Nazareth)
>*natzran* morphs more readily into Nazarenos than into Nazaraios -- which
>tips the scales in the other direction.

The inhabitants of Natzrat/Natzeret  would have been more likely to be 
called "Natzratim" than "Natzranim."
See "Tzarphat"/"Tzarphatim."

Eric Forster