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According to what many investigators now believe, the stable mentioned iin The Bible was most likely out side the town of Bethlehem (remember the event and subsequent crowd drawn thereto). It is believed the stable was either a natural cave or a cave hewn into a rock face, not an uncommon method back then. That being the case, the manger was most likely a cistern or basin like affair hewn into the same rock, probably a monolithic structure. crude, but good shelter and a lasting one.

Contrary to popular belief, the "manger" where Jesus was born had nothing to do with a stable for animals. It was a building known as "the queen's house" (after one of the queens of Herod) where pregnant women who were not married would stay and give birth to and nurse their illegitimate children. This building stood about a kilometer south of the Qumran plateau near the Dead Sea. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was only betrothed to Joseph and not properly married to him, and so gave birth to Jesus in this building. For further information read "Jesus the Man" by Barbara Thiering (Corgi edition, originally published by Doubleday, 1992).

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