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Dec 24, 2020 · As mentioned at the end of the preceding quotation, Zinzendorf chose to name the new community Bethlehem both in relation to the setting of the Christmas holiday and the date but also because of the similar sounds of the Hebrew “lechem,” meaning bread, and “Lecha,” a Native American name for what is now the Lehigh River.
Dec 19, 2022 · The slopes of Bethlehem’s surrounding hills and their adjacent fields provided fertile agricultural lands for harvesting wheat and barley (see Ruth 1:22; 2:1–3; and 4:11), which likely gave the village its Hebrew name, “House of Bread.” These sloping hills also contained terraced orchards of olive trees, exposed patches of limestone bedrock pocked with natural caves, and large ...
- Matthew J. Grey
Feb 8, 2018 · We spent days looking through old photos and with the help of the Bethlehem Area Public Library, selected some old scenes from around Bethlehem. Some photographs date back to the early 1930s.
Dec 25, 2019 · Today, exactly 275 years after the city’s naming, Mack’s account endures, but the man behind the words seems to be lost to all but scholars and history buffs, while more familiar Moravian ...
- Nicole Radzievich
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem. The inscribed property is situated 10 km south of Jerusalem on the site identified by Christian tradition as the birthplace of Jesus since the 2nd century. Bethlehem now has a Muslim majority, but is still home to a significant Palestinian Christian community. Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism, which ...
Dec 9, 2016 · PHOTO GALLERY: Bethlehem celebrates its naming 275 years ago
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Bethlehem has the first National Register Historic District in Pennsylvania, the first municipal pumped water system in America, earliest industrial park in America’s original 13 Colonies, largest 18th Century log building in continuous use in America (Gemeinhaus – 1741), first to educate women (Moravian University 1742), first school to teach Native American Languages (1744), oldest ...
