(Arab bait-laḥm; Βητλέεμ (Bētléem; NT); Βαιτλεεμ (Baitleem; LXX); Βητλέμα, Βηθλεέμη (Bētléma, Bēthleémē; Ios.); Hebrew bēt-leẹm ‘House of Bread’); located about 8 km south of Jerusalem on the important communication route between Jerusalem and Hebron on fertile land at the edge of the desert. The interpretation of the place name as a derivation from a goddess named Lachama is …
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Köckert, Matthias (Berlin) and
Pahlitzsch, Johannes (Berlin),
“Bethlehem”, in:
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