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Christmas Revisionist History

Story ID:3358
Written by:Suzana Margaret Megles (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:OurEcho Community
Location:Bethlehem Juda Israel
Year:3
Person:Jesus
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Posted 12/25/2007 23:09 by Frederick William Wickert | Reply
Regarding the "stable" of the birth of Jesus, there is the reference to "No room in the inn," and it is known that in those days, and indeed there remain today some buildings similar, there were two story buildings. On one end of the building there was a large open area within the outside walls of the building, that was overlooked by the upper floor in which the livestock were stabled. The heat generated by the bodies and the manure of the animals below, rose to the second floor and not only were the animals warmer, the people in the upper floor of the inn were also warmer during colder times of the year. This also may have been the type stable in which Jesus was born, and some experts consider it the more likely scenario.
Fred
Posted 12/26/2007 08:36 by Suzana Margaret Megles | Reply
Thanx Fred, but scholars now believe
because of the preponderance of caves
in this region at this time that they were used as stables for the animals. In my Byzantine rite, we picture the Holy Family in a CAVE-stable. Maybe this is another piece of revisionist history which I do accept simply because this too has been studied by Catholic scholars and is being slowly
accepted - though of course - does it really matter whether it was a stable or cave or a cave-stable?