Bethlehem: the Past and Present of a Small City (history School)
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There is food, customs, history, reality, the past and present life of a small town in the Bible. From ancient times to today, the most authentic and powerful guide to Bethlehem; starting from the ruins and stories, it combines history and personal memories, archeology, and wonderful explanations of human and geographical landscapes. Bethlehem is an ancient town located on the West Bank of the Jordan River. It is known as the "fulcrum of world history". It carries so much meaning, history, mythology, and religion. It lives vividly in everyone's imagination and is visited by more than 2.5 Million visitors every year. For some, Bethlehem remains a biblical town on the edge of the desert; for others, it is trapped within a wall, surrounded by Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. The British writer Nicholas Blincoe has lived in Bethlehem for many years. Based on his inner experience of living there, he tells the past and present life of Bethlehem in thirteen chapters. From the caves and carvings of the ninth century BC to the complex politics of today, he takes readers through its stone streets and desert hollows, monasteries, aqueducts and orchards, showing the city from every angle and era, and inevitably revealing one of the world's most thorny political issues. Bethlehem is a source of pride and wealth, but also a region where despair, poverty and violence have become the norm. It is a beacon of coexistence that can light the way to a better future; if the physical sites there survive but the threads stretching back to ancient history are broken, the chance of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be lost as well.
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