. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . the altar and the high place there (TV K.,xxiii, 15). After the Captivity, the Benjaminitesreturned to Bethel. In the time of the Macchabees,.it was fortified by Bacchidcs. There is no mentionof Bethel in the New Testament, but Josephus re-cords that it was taken by Vespasian (Bell. Jud., IV,.ix, 9). Easebius mentions the place as a village. Itis commonly identified nowadays with Beitin. The-ruins of several Christian churches on the spot wouldindicate
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . the altar and the high place there (TV K.,xxiii, 15). After the Captivity, the Benjaminitesreturned to Bethel. In the time of the Macchabees,.it was fortified by Bacchidcs. There is no mentionof Bethel in the New Testament, but Josephus re-cords that it was taken by Vespasian (Bell. Jud., IV,.ix, 9). Easebius mentions the place as a village. Itis commonly identified nowadays with Beitin. The-ruins of several Christian churches 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, s. v.; Smith, Hist. Geogr. of theHoly Land, 119, 250 sqq.; 290 sqq., 352; Zanecchia, LaPalestine daujourdhui (1890), II, 488 sqq.; Schenz in Kir-chenlex., s. v. John , a titular see of Palestine. The early-name of the city was Ephrata; afterwards Bethlehem,.. VIEW OF BETHLEHEMINTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY, BETHLEHEM I BETHLEHEM 533 BETHLEHEM House of Breod ; to-day Beith-Lahm, House ofFlesh . There died Rachel, Jacobs wife (Gen., xxxv,19); David was born there (I Kings, xvii, 12), and manyother Biblical personages. There was enacted thegracious idyll of Ruth and Booz. There, above all,the Saviour was born, a descendant of David, 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 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 (Xablous), as the placeof the Nativity. About a. d. 330 Constantine theGreat built a basil
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