Word: nazareth
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Bethlehem, Nazareth in Holy Battle Come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem? Not if Nazareth can help it. The two towns are engaged in a tug-of-war over the title of Jesus' hometown ? with millions in tourism revenues at stake...
...called Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of any other city,? says Nazareth mayor Ramiz Jaraisy. TIME correspondent and Bethlehem resident Jamil Hamad counters: ?Bethlehem is the place Jesus was born. Not even the Vatican could compete with that...
BETHLEHEM: Israelis and Palestinians agree on very little, but they usually manage to leave Jesus out of it. No longer: Representatives of Nazareth and Bethlehem are at each other?s throats over which town has greater claim to be called the home of Christ...
...Both sides have a legitimate claim ? Jesus was born in Bethlehem (now under Palestinian Authority control) but spent most of his life in Nazareth (which, despite being predominantly Arab, is part of Israel proper). The real issue as they jockey for position and investment is where the 2 million Christian pilgrims to the region each year ? with 5 million expected in the millennial year ? spend their money...
...Jesus of Nazareth was one of history's most powerful and charismatic teachers, but he never published. Until now. That, at any rate, is the premise of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son (Random House; 242 pages; $22), a novel that purports to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus. Questions will immediately occur, even to readers most willing to suspend their disbelief for the sake of the narrative to come. When did Jesus write this story, and for that matter, where? Why did he wait nearly 2,000 years to present his own Gospel...