It was, quite literally, Bethlehem’s first house. The bustling city began as a simple 18th century log cabin built on the site of the Hotel Bethlehem on Main Street some 35 years before there ...

For some people strolling through Bethlehem Village in Afton ... race through Hebron Baptist Church’s reenactment of a first-century town and shout the good news that a baby has been born ...

He adds there is evidence the other Bethlehem in the West Bank, or what Israelis call Judea, was not even inhabited in the first century. Paula Fredriksen, an American scholar of the historical ...

During their excavation, they discovered various pots and artifacts dating back to the first century CE, which some believe could support the traditional account of Bethlehem as the birthplace of ...

This article about the Star of Bethlehem is republished here with ... it is found only in the Gospel of Matthew, a first-century account of Jesus’ life that begins with the story of his birth.