[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[Jay Weigel]

IOW, a builder, or contractor......

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Men had to be somewhat established in a trade I believe, so Joseph would
> > most likely have been around 18-20. And IIRC, the word used in the Greek
> to
> > describe his trade is "tekton", which translates more as "contractor"
> than
> > "carpenter". Or so I recall hearing recently.
> >
>
> Fr. James Martin in his marvelous book, Jesus, quotes Elizabeth Johnson
> about the tekton trade -- it was a combination of carpenter, stonemason,
> cartwright, and joiner, all rolled into one.
>
> Eleanor
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