Jesus Carpentry

[Julius_Caesar]

Would it be accurate to call Jesus a civil engineer?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

He might have been that, or a builder. We don’t know how far along he got in the trade.

 

[ReaderT]

“Civil Engineer (definition): An engineer who designs and maintains roads, bridges, dams, and similar structures.”

From the sources it seems the Lord was more of a wood-worker: St. Justin Martyr said that when he was alive (in 150 AD), pieces of furniture still existed that Jesus had built.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

While Jesus may well have built some furniture, there are other sources indicating that Joseph actually supported his family working on large-scale publicly funded projects. He would have been the equivalent of a union carpenter in the building trade. That of course doesn’t mean that if somebody in his family or neighborhood needed a table or chair, he couldn’t whip one up, but it likely didn’t pay very much.
One would expect the son to follow in his dad’s footsteps, especially since he probably would have tried to make enough money for his mother to live on for a few years prior to going out on his public life.

 

[BartholomewB]

Adding to what @Tis_Bearself just wrote, one possibility is that Joseph and Jesus were two among a large army of construction workers – masons, carpenters, and many other skilled craftsmen – employed on long-term buildng projects at Sepphoris, which was the capital of Galilee until about AD 18, when Herod Antipas finished building his new capital at Tiberias. Nazareth was one of several villages and small towns within walking distance of Sepphoris.

The city had suffered severe damage in 4 BC when Varus crushed a Galilean revolt: “He took the city of Sepphoris and burned it and made slaves of its inhabitants” (Josephus, War II:68).

 

[Agnus-Dei]

Wow. If that could be verified somehow. I imagine instead of having a “Henry the 8th”, having an authentic “Jesus chair”. Stool, settee, even a pencil box, whatever, I’d be fine with any at all!
Dominus vobiscum

 

[Anesti33]

Joseph was a tekton and Steve Ray tells us that that could imply he worked with stone and metal, just as much as with wood.

The city of Sepphoris was near Nazareth and so most historians believe that Joseph and Jesus worked on projects there.

https://www.catholicconvert.com/blo...or-joseph-the-worker-feast-day-of-the-worker/

 

[Agnus-Dei]

Have to read on my day off. (Sunday only)
Thank you
Dominus vobiscum

 

[Beryllos]

I wonder if Jesus did carpentry work on boats as well. Seems like he spent a lot of time on boats.

 

[Beryllos]

Would it be accurate to call Jesus a civil engineer?

He made a bridge between heaven and earth, so yes.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

And if those boats were anything like the replicas currently sailing the Sea of Galilee that claim to be just like what Peter used, those were some nice boats.

 

[GEddie]

ISTM that the boats of St. Peter’s time were more like the open boat found near Kefar Nahum in the late 1900s.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Still a nice boat. 27 feet by 8 feet by 4 feet deep, could carry 15 people.

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[brown_bear]

Provided perhaps that the “degree” is not thought of as something that ennobles Jesus, because obviously Jesus does not need to be graduated to be amazing.

In any case, I believe that an engineer stays away from manual work and even from simply keeping up with the workers, so I see it difficult