Two roads, therefore, and possibly carrying quite different types of influence, converged in Sepphoris so that the village or hamlet of Nazareth, while certainly off the beaten track, was not very far off a fairly well beaten track. To understand Nazareth, therefore, demands consideration not only of its rural aspects but also of its relationship to an urban provincial capital that contained, in the summary statement of Andrew Overman, “courts, a fortress, a theater seating 3–4000, a palace, a colonnaded street on top of the acropolis, two city walls, two markets (upper and lower), archives,
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