And what of the tradition that Our Lord was born in a cave, a place where animals were kept?
Ancient Christian writers and early liturgical texts use the word, "cave" for the place of the birth of the Son of God.
The the grotto in the Church of the Holy Nativity in Bethlehem also attests to this.
does that not fit with a kind of domestic undercroft (where animals were kept)?
since a lot of judean houses were built into cliffs/bluffs, etc, these don't seem mutually exclusive to me!
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And what of the tradition that Our Lord was born in a cave, a place where animals were kept?
Ancient Christian writers and early liturgical texts use the word, "cave" for the place of the birth of the Son of God.
The the grotto in the Church of the Holy Nativity in Bethlehem also attests to this.
does that not fit with a kind of domestic undercroft (where animals were kept)?
since a lot of judean houses were built into cliffs/bluffs, etc, these don't seem mutually exclusive to me!