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 Description: Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم Bayt Laḥm "house of meat"; בית לחם "house of bread", Standard Hebrew Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem, Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of Palestine. Under the Oslo accords, Israel handed over Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority in 1995.
Bethlehem is about 10 kilometers south of Jerusalem, standing at an elevation of about 765 meters above the sea, thus 30 meters higher than Jerusalem. The Bethlehem agglomeration also covers the small towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, the latter also having biblical significance. Bethlehem is home to a university
Bethlehem has great significance to the Christian religion as it is the place where Jesus of Nazareth was born. The city's populated area and its attached suburbs are immediately adjacent the traditional site of Rachel's tomb which is important in Judaism. Bethlehem is also home to one of largest communities of Palestinian Christians remaining in the Middle East.
There is a Christian church still existing among the many in Bethlehem, built by Constantine the Great (A.D. 330), called the Church of the Nativity, over a grotto or cave called the Holy Crypt, and said to be the stable in which Jesus was born. This is perhaps the oldest existing Christian church in the world. Close to it is another grotto, where Jerome the Latin father is said to have spent thirty years of his life in translating the Scriptures into Latin. (See Vulgate).
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| Resource Specification | | CustomTeaserText: | Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم Bayt Laḥm "house of meat"; בית לחם "house of bread", Standard Hebrew Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem, Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of Palestine. Under the Oslo accords, Israel handed over Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority in 1995.
| | Date Added: | 18pm30UTC_f2005Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:04:13 +000004pm30 |
| Last Updated: | 18pm30UTC_f2005Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:04:13 +000004pm30 | | Author: | admin |
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