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No. Jerusalem and Nazareth are two separate cities. In Biblical times, Nazareth was in Galilee and Jerusalem in Judea.
were turkeys common in Jerusalem during biblical times
In Biblical times, they were taken twice, but subjugated many times.
Last names didn't really exist in Biblical times. However, people were identified from the city from which they or their fathers were from. This is why Jesus is called Jesus of Nazareth.
Judah was first a region (the area assigned to the tribe of Judah) and then a nation (the southern kingdom during the period of Israel's divided monarchy. Nazareth is a city in northern Israel in an area known in Roman times as the Galilees. The approximate distance from Bethlehem, a city approximately 3 miles south of Jerusalem in the ancient tribal territory of Judah, to Nazareth is about 67 lineal miles (e.g., "as the crow flies").
This has often been depicted in clever movies which show well the times and the people. So look at a Bible film and you will see.
Most Mediterranean countries have capitals that existed as cities during the Roman period or earlier, which would put them squarely in Biblical times, such as Jerusalem, Beirut, Amman, Damascus, Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Lisbon, Algiers, and Tripoli (among others).
The Jerusalem Times was created in 1994.
There have been Saracen Caliphs who ruled over Jerusalem, but the last Saracens to control Jerusalem lost the city to the Seljuk Turks in the mid-1200s. It has since changed hands several times.
Moab is a country that existed in Biblical times, to the east of Israel (in what is now southwest Jordan). Bethlehem is a town in Israel, just south of Jerusalem.
Oil lamps were used for light in Biblical times.
In the King James version the word - Jerusalem - appears 811 times the word - Jerusalem's - appears 3 times