Bethlehem
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 A neighborhood of Bethlehem | ||
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| Mayor | Victor Batarseh - is a town in the West Bank , a region of Palestine , to about 10 km south of Jerusalem , which has 30 000 inhabitants mostly Palestinian Muslims. The city has a small community of Palestinian Christians , one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. His city extends to the cities of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour. The city is an important religious center. Jewish tradition makes it the place of birth and coronation of the King of Israel David. It is regarded by many Christians as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth , a place of pilgrimage which generates significant economic activity to the period of Christmas. The city is also home to a holy site of Judaism, the tomb of Rachel , located at the entrance to the city. Since 1995 , under the Oslo accords , the city is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.
ReligionIn Genesis , Bethlehem is the place dies Rachel was born and where Benjamin , second son of Rachel and Benjamin Jacob. The phrase "Bethlehem on the path Ephratah "appears several times in the biblical texts. In the Books of Samuel , the King David is the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, which is why the prophet Micah makes the future home of the Messiah : "And thou Bethlehem, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah , from you shall come for me one who should dominate in Israel, and the origins of which were of old, from the days of eternity " .   In the New Testament , in Matthew and Luke , Bethlehem in Judea is the birthplace of Jesus, Jesus' parents go there for it to identify, Joseph, a descendant of David, being born . At the eleventh century , Bernard of Clairvaux extends the Hebrew etymology Bethlehem (house of bread) in use Christian: Jesus (born in Bethlehem) becomes the living Bread descended from Heaven . Several shrines are located in Bethlehem: the tomb of Rachel , the Church of the Nativity , the Milk Grotto. HistoryBirthplace of Jesus The birthplace of Jesus is not known with certainty , and historians are torn between Bethlehem - mentioned by two Gospels , presumably to fit a prophecy of Micah on the origin of the Davidic Messiah - the birthplace and home of Nazareth , where he spent his youth . These are the gospels of Luke and Matthew that make Bethlehem the birthplace of Jesus. According Stridon Jerome (Epistola, 58, 3), who lived in Bethlehem in the late fourth century , the cave of the Nativity of Christ was already revered time of Hadrian , to prevent such reverence that it was build a temple to Adonis , the Emperor would have done the same in Jerusalem with the Temple and the Holy Sepulchre. If proven in the case of the Holy Sepulchre, the assertions of Christian apologetics are not corroborated by any archaeological evidence on other sites, there is no evidence of habitat and contemporary of Jesus of Nazareth on the site Bethlehem . Moreover, another place of worship of the Nativity / Epiphany of Christ, before the Constantinian basilica seems to have existed , in spite of the allusions apologists Justin Martyr and Origen. The Jewish archaeologist Aviram Oshri found a town namesake of Bethlehem of Galilee in Galilee , six miles from Nazareth , he speculates that it would be the true birthplace of Jesus, in fact, two recent excavations have revealed traces of contemporary Jewish populations at the time of Jesus, and the sixth century , signs of the presence of a large Christian community and a place of Christian pilgrimage , but this is not sufficient to support his thesis. Basilica of the Nativity Main article: Church of the Nativity. At the peace of the Church, Helena , mother of Constantine I , visited the shrine and his son built the Basilica of the Nativity. Jerome withdrew to a nearby cave and it translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin, in a version known as the Vulgate. The Basilica of the Nativity was restored by Justinian , and was the only sanctuary untouched by the Persians when they invaded Palestine. It was again restored by the Crusaders , the twelfth century. At the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , his protection was entrusted to the Order of the Temple. Modern History The city is now partially surrounded by a wall of 8 meters high, built by the Israeli authorities. The wall is located in the city, it makes the lives of people insecure, and unemployment now exceeds 40%. You meet people speaking English, French and even for many. Bethlehem in 2000 received the visit of Pope John Paul II to commemorate the millennium of the birth of Christ and was welcomed by the local Christian population. References
See also In Praise of the new militia is available on Wikisource.
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