Sycamore figs grow at a low elevation, lower than the Tekoa of Judah, which is at a relatively high elevation of 850 metres ( overlooking both Jerusalem and Bethlehem ).

* 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

In 985, the Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi visited Bethlehem, and referred to its church as the " Basilica of Constantine, the equal of which does not exist anywhere in the country-round.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics — the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial.

Important also is De viris illustribus, written at Bethlehem in 392, the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from Suetonius.

The only railway line in Lesotho is the Maseru branch line, which connects the capital city Maseru to the Bloemfontein – Bethlehem line in the railway network of South Africa.

* St. Sabbas the Sanctified organized the monks of the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem ( 483 ), now known as Mar Saba, which is considered the mother of all monasteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.

I have used the term ' the earthly and visible Bethlehem ' because the heretics believed there is a different and invisible earth in which – according to some of them – the ' good ' Christ was born and crucified.

Furthermore, there are heterodox branches of Esoteric Christianity that practice divination, blessings, or appealing to angels for certain intervention, which they view as perfectly righteous, often supportable by gospel ( for instance, claiming that the old commandment against divination was superseded by Christ's birth, and noting that the Magi used astrology to locate Bethlehem ).

Among Innocent I's letters is one to Jerome and another to John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, regarding annoyances to which the former had been subjected by the Pelagians at Bethlehem.

William Dalrymple reviewing the literature in 1999 tells us that J. E. Hanauer in his 1907 book Folklore of the Holy Land: Muslim, Christian and Jewish " mentioned a shrine in the village of Beit Jala, beside Bethlehem, which at the time was frequented by all three of Palestine's religious communities.

* Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which absorbed the cities of South Bethlehem, and West Bethlehem.

He departs for Egypt, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, accompanied by the Christian ascetic Paula, who will edit Jerome's translation of the Bible, which become the Latin Vulgate.

The largest gun designed by Gathmann was the 18-inch Gathmann Gun, which was a coastal defense gun manufactured by Bethlehem Steel under Emil Gathmann ( head of Bethlehem Steel's Ordnance Section, and one of Gathmann's sons ).

Also in yet another accident he crashes his car and fires a flaregun hoping for help, which Homer mistakes for the Star of Bethlehem, and wolves approach in an aggressive manner but Moleman mistakes them for rescue dogs.

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem ; ( because he was of the house and lineage of David :)

Jacob's other wife, Rachel, was buried " in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Even Lope de Vega made Orosius a central character in his play The Cardinal of Bethlehem, which shows how long-lived his fame was.

* The Santa Ana winds are the subject of a 1965 essay by Joan Didion entitled " Los Angeles Notebook ," which appears in her Slouching Towards Bethlehem collection of essays.

When Henry Hudson sailed up the river that would eventually bear his name, he is thought to have landed at what is now the town of Bethlehem.

The New Testament identifies Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.

In the eighteenth century, some of the Mohican developed strong ties with missionaries of the Moravian Church from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who founded a mission at their village of Shekomeko in Dutchess County, New York.

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Bethlehem is a hillside town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

The main village of the town, where 972 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Bethlehem census-designated place ( CDP ), and is located at the junction of U. S. Route 302 with New Hampshire Route 142.

For a town in northern New Hampshire, contemporary Bethlehem has a sizable Jewish community ( and a number of synagogues ), a legacy of its hay-fever-relief experience.

Town boundaries contain several of the famous 4, 000-footers of New Hampshire: North Twin Mountain ( the highest point in Bethlehem at ), Mount Hale, Mount Tom, Mount Field and Mount Willey.

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Alexandria was formed by Royal Charter on March 5, 1765, from portions of Bethlehem Township, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Bethlehem Township is a Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.

Bethlehem was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Bethlehem Township is considered an exurb of New York City, as Hunterdon County lies on the western fringe of the New York City Metropolitan Area.

Bethlehem Township remains well connected to major metropolitan areas ( such as the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania and New York City ) via I-78 / US 22 and Route 173.

People who live in Bethlehem Township have mailing addresses to nearby towns including Clinton, New Jersey and Hampton, New Jersey ( and even Asbury, New Jersey which is located in neighboring Warren County ), as ' Bethlehem Township ' itself is not a mailing address.