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Title: The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church Theology Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York, R. Appleton
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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yed the altar and the high place there (IV K.,xxiii, 15). After the Captivity, the Benjaminitesreturned to Bethel. In the time of the Macchabees,it was fortified by Bacchides. There is no mentionof Bethel in the New Testament, but Josephus re-cords that it was taken by Vespasian (Bell. Jud.,IV,ix, 9). Eusebius mentions the place as a village. Itis commonly identified nowadays with Beitin. Theruins of several Christian ciiurches on the spot wouldindicate that in the Middle Ages it had again grownto some importance. The name Bethel is alsoread in Jos., xii, 16 and I K., xxx, 27; it is probablyanother name for Bethul (Jos., xix, 4), a city of thetribe of Simeon, the site of which is uncertain. Hagen, Lexicon Biblicum, 8. v.; Smith, Hi-it. Geogr. of theHoly Land, 119, 250 sqq.; 290 sqq., 352; Zanecchia, iaPalestine daujourdhui (1890), II, 488 sqq.; Schenz in Atr-chenlex., a. v. John Corbett.Bethlehem, a titular see of Palestine. The earlyname of the city was Ephrata; afterwards Bethlehem.
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VIEW OF BETHLEHEMINTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY, BETHLEHEM BETHLEHEM 533 BETHLEHEM House of Bread ; to-day Beith-Lahm, House ofFlesh. There died Rachel, Jacobs wife (Gen., xxxv,19); David was born there (I Kings, xvii, 12), and many-other Biblical personages. There was enacted thegracious idyO of Ruth and Booz. There, above all,the Saviour was born, a descendant of IDavid, andfrom this fact the humble village has acquired un-paralleled glory. It was at Bethlehem, also, thatin the fourth century St. Jerome, St. Paula, and St.Bustochium fixed their residence. According toJohn Cassian, it was in a monastery of Bethlehemthat the office of Prime was instituted. As early asthe second century it was indicated by St. JustinMartyr, a native of Neapolis (Nilblous), as the placeof the Nativity. About A. D. 330 Constantine theGreat built a basilica on this site. The present churchappears to date from a later time—either the fifthor the sixth century—and has been repaired at stilllater

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