biblical times• An overwhelming body of evidenceindicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times.• Not much later a man who was probably a Samaritancomposed another history of biblical times.• In biblical times, according to the book of Leviticus, women at work were valued at thirty silvershekels.• Mr Harel may still live in biblical times, but I happen to live in the present.• Although my subject is medieval history, we used to read and discuss all history from biblical timesonward.