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003			OCoLC
005			20180722225600.0
008			170312t20172017nyua b 001 0 eng d
040			_aBTCTA _beng _erda _cBTCTA _dBDX _dYDX _dJSE _dORX _dOCLCO _dCZA _dFM0 _dJQW _dNFG
020			_a9781568585833 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1568585837
035			_a(OCoLC)975486261
092			_a956.942 _bB648
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBlincoe, Nicholas, _eauthor. _9347528
245	1	0	_aBethlehem : _bbiography of a town / _cNicholas Blincoe.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNation Books, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_aviii, 271 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-247) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The Christmas pudding -- Nomads and lovers: from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age -- Scent, spice, and chemicals: the Iron Age -- Bethlehem and Christ: the Classical Age -- Helena's church: Christian Rome -- The Emperor's new church: Byzantium -- Traders to crusaders: the Islamic conquest to the crusader town -- Mamluks and Ottomans: thirteenth to nineteenth century -- The British: the Victorian Age to the Second World War -- Jordan: 1948-1967 -- Israel: from 1967 to Oslo -- Palestine: after Oslo -- The future for the settlers -- The future for Bethlehem.
520			_a"Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it."--Jacket flap.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pNew Testament _xGeography. _9347529
651		0	_aBethlehem _xHistory. _9347530
650		0	_aArab-Israeli conflict. _924590
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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