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Bethlehem
 


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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation websites
 
  • Sanctuary Bethlehem - site hosted by the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, a group of "Franciscan missionaries serving the Holy Land."
 
 
Excavation Reports
 
Harvey William.  Structural Survey of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Armstrong, Gregory T.  "Imperial Building in the Holy Land in the Fourth Century."  The Biblical Archaeologist 30:3 (1967) 90-102.
 
Cerny, Edward A.  "Archaeological Corner: Bethlehem: Basilica of the Nativity."  The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 2:4 (1940) 346-349.
 
Harvey, William and John H. Harvey.  "Recent Discoveries in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem."  Archaeologia 87 (1937) 7-17, pls. VII–XV.
 
Harvey, William.  "The Early Basilica at Bethlehem."  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 68:1 (1936) 28-33.
 
King, Philip J.  "Jesus' Birthplace and Jesus' Home."  Biblical Archaeology Review 40:6 (2014) 26.
 
Kitzinger, Ernst.  "The Threshold of the Holy Shrine: Observations on Floor Mosaics at Antioch and Bethlehem."  In Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten (ed. Patrick Granfield and Josef Andreas Jungmann; Münster: Aschendorff, 1970) 639-647.
 
"Mosaic Found under Manger Square."  Biblical Archaeology Review 25:3 (1999) 21.
 
Prag, Kay.  "R. W. Hamilton, D. C. Baramki and the Lower Aqueduct at Bethlehem."  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 140:1 (2008) 27-38.
 
Pullan, Wendy.  "'Ascent and Descent' in the Constantinian Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem."  In Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson (ed. Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2000) 308-321.
 
Yarnold, Edward J.  "Who Planned the Churches at the Christian Holy Places in the Holy Land?"  Studia patristica 18:1 (1985) 105-109.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Matthew 1–2
Luke 1–2
 
 
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