↑ Theo Edwin D. Freed trong "Chuyện về sự sinh chúa Giêsu" (Continuum International, 2004) trang 77.
↑ Geza Vermes, The Nativity: History and Legend, London, Penguin, 2006, p22
↑ E. P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus, 1993, p.85
↑ John Dominic Crossan, Richard G. Watts, Who Is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus, Westminster John Knox Press, page 19.
↑ James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making, (Eerdmans, 2003), page 344-345.
↑ Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard, Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 5: Mercer University Press (1990), page 445 - 446. See Mark 6:1-4; and John 1:46
↑ Aviram Oshri, "Where was Jesus Born?", Archaeology, Volume 58 Number 6, November/tháng 12 năm 2005.
↑ Joan E. Taylor, Christians and the Holy Places, Oxford University Press, 1993, pages 99-100. "Joseph... took up his quarters in a certain cave near the village; and while they were there Mary brought forth the Christ and placed him in a manger, and here the Magi who came from Arabia found him."(Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, chapter LXXVIII).
↑ In Bethlehem the cave is pointed out where he was born, and the manger in the cave where he was wrapped in swaddling clothes. And the rumor is in those places, and among foreigners of the Faith, that indeed Jesus was born in this cave who is worshipped and reverenced by the Christians. (Origen, Contra Celsum, book I, chapter LI).
↑ Joan E. Taylor, Christians and the Holy Places, Oxford University Press, 1993, các trang 96-104.
1 2 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) & Office of the Special Coordinator for the Peace Process in the Middle East (tháng 12 năm 2004). “Costs of Conflict: The Changing Face of Bethlehem” (PDF). United Nations.
1 2 Andrea Pacini (1998). Socio-Political and Community Dynamics of Arab Christians in Jordan, Israel, and the Autonomous Palestinian Territories. Clarendon Press. tr. p. 282. ISBN0-19-829388-7.
↑ Marsh, Leonard (tháng 7 năm 2005). “Palestinian Christianity – A Study in Religion and Politics”. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 57 (7): 147–66.
