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>For example, being a "carpenter's son" almost universally meant you also were a carpenter for most of history
But Mark doesn't call him the "carpenter's son" just carpenter. If he knew his father was Joseph the carpenter he would've mentioned him, but he didn't. It's far more likely that Joseph was invented by the other evangelists than Mark not knowing about his existence.
>Or the idea a woman could have 7 illegitimate children but had no husband to pay for them all (even prostitutes could not support so many children).
You underestimate ancient Palestinian prostitutes.
>From a purely secular standpoint, the idea that Mark literally didn't know of Joseph is possible, but the idea that from the text Jesus was illegitimate is not.
Celsus would disagree.