Question:- Do you know how big a local dwelling was?
Yes.
But geographic location was key.
A family would live in a very very small space, the size of our small bedrooms, would be the size of most houses. They lived with their animals in the same house. Two story houses would have a loft in which the people slept, animals in the basement/first story.
I dont see Nazareth having a lot of two story houses in the first century, I think it was more single story, with rock courtyards and rock fences to keep animals in, if one even had animals.
....that he 'worked' villages and hamlets with 'magic' for a meal.
It wasnt magic for a meal, but there were always people who needed some sort of medical help, Candida Moss claims christianity started out as free health care for the poverty stricken. So we know Jesus healed when he could. As would many teachers.
Again part of his message would have been political, his death was. he didnt die for being peaceful and spreading love.
.....that he was a messianic after Crosson's 'model'.
Crossan goes overboard on different aspects of Jesus movement. I dont think Jesus viewed himself as a messiah. After his death, people made that claim.
...... that his main ministry was a only week (or so).
I never stated a week
We dont know. 1 to 3 years is what is typically thought.
Im sure his movement evolved.
.........that he was an unknown nobody. Amongst his own he was known.
Define "his own" Judaism was wide and diverse. He didnt focus on the rich, they sort of were after the outcast type living on the fringe. Yet we have him making friends with tax collectors and teaching to those the outcast type would hate. He had dinner with Zacc and got him to give back its stated much of his profits.
I think Hellenistic Judaism was not "his own" and those who were poor and oppressed Galileans were his own. Many may have known of him as he traveled but this wasnt widespread popularity where he would go into a village and be known by all. he wasnt known by all.
We have passages in Gmark where he goes into these small villages and yells, Listen! Listen to me! so that he can get peoples attention to get his message out. It definately was not "Oh look" its Jesus coming everyone run out and circle him like a rock star.
Before his death unknown, after his death people came out of the woodwork describing events and details. This isnt the oral tradition were left with. It had to go cross culturally after decades within the campfires of Hellenistic Proselytes before these collections were compiled into stories that were later compiled in literature. And if you didnt know, written material had little value since most couldnt read. Carrier goes into this in detail.
..........that he only had a very few 'hangers on'. They filled (local) dwellings, and several instances are described where, for instance his mother and brothershad to wait outside.
They were not hangers on. He had a very small movement as that is what it took to #1 eat to survive, and #2 to not be noticed and survive by not looking like a political threat, sedition. 12 guys traveling around would look like a threat.
But most of all, your reading Hellenistic Proselytes version who are competing Jesus divinity with the Roman Emporers. Roman Emporers were worshipped as "son of god" before Jesus was born. They placed him many times talking in front of large crowds just like the Emporer, then attributed miracles to make him more grand then Emporers.
But, yeah....ok.
