Description
Hand-carved from genuine olive wood that was grown in the Holy Land.
Bethlehem is the cradle of Christianity, the site of the Church of the Nativity, which contains an underground cave where Mary gave birth to Jesus. Mary was a 1st century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the Virgin mother of Jesus. Jesus Christ is the designation of Jesus of Nazareth who was an itinerant Jewish prophet from the Galilee in northern Israel. He preached the imminent intervention in human affairs by the God of the Jews, when God would establish his kingdom on earth. The proper name Jesus was Greek for the Hebrew Yeshua (“he who saves”). ‘Christ’ (Greek: Christos) was translated from the Hebrew “meshiach” (messiah).
Weight: 14.35 g.
Dimensions: 82 mm. (width) x 108 mm. (length)