Talk:One user's view about the Historical Jesus/@comment-3338975-20130105204204

In explanation of just how Jesus was able to avoid being manuveured into an arranged marriage  until the time of his ministry ("the hidden years" the apocryphal writings of later centuries were so interested in, and which they portrayed so fantastically as to create grave doubt as to whether they had really retrieved historical information unknown about Jesus in the first century), the following points may suffice to explain it in a (relatively) mundane fashion.

Up until Yeshua reached the "age of reason" (twelve/thirteen - basically, when he hit puberty), it would be unlikely in his social setting that he'd be married off yet (though parents obviously may plan for it beforehand, all things depending). After that point, most Jewish males would be married off rather quickly (as they were generally not considered truly men until they had consummated their marriage in the Jewish religious outlook of the time), but in Yeshua's case he seems to have shown a special aptitude in intuitively grasping the Hebrew Scriptures (as the story of his staying behind in the Temple to listen to and ask questions of the teachers there seems to indicate, even when stripped of its more anachronistic elements). For this reason, he most likely was then sent off to a proto-rabbinnical school to advance in his basic literacy concerning the Jewish religious-historical classic at the hands of a scribe or scribes until he reached an age approaching closer to (what we would now consider) adulthood, perhaps the only socially acceptable avenue for not getting married at a young age at the time (accepted, because of the nobility the training was seen as conveying to young Jewish boys).

This then begs the question, why was he never formally inducted into the mainstream schools of the Pharisees or the Sadducees, as can be seen in the fact that his ministry expresses views both add odds and in agreement with each school at different points (as well as holding some view held by neither)? The answer, interestingly enough, may lie with the fact that Jesus was always called the son of Miriam/Mary within the Gospels, and never the son of Yoesph/Joesph (though he was at least the legal son of Joesph even on their non-biological terms); if this sounds odd, the reason it might hold the key is because the total lack of mention of Yoesph after Yeshua hits puberty associated with it, which indicates that Yeshua was spoken of in terms of his mother rather than his father because she was the parent who was still around - meaning, Yoesph passed away at some point during Yeshua's Scriptural training.