Many people never even learn the Nativity is stitched together from two totally separate stories (one in Matthew, one in Luke)https://twitter.com/cstross/status/813119262466441217 …
Luke says Joseph and Mary were already in Nazareth, and go to Bethlehem where Jesus is born bc of the census
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so the stitched-together story says they started in Nazareth, go to Bethlehem, then come back to Nazareth
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but that's a later interpretation, neither original story actually says that's what happened
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how far apart are the two towns and are they culturally different?
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they're 100 miles apart, Nazareth was "northern Judea" and Bethlehem "southern"
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