BYU's Bethlehem Exhibit Highlights Forgotten History and Culture

Guests: Cynthia Finlayson Professor of Anthropology, BYU. Paul Stavast, Director of the BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures. For Christians, Bethlehem brings to mind shepherds and angels and a holy babe lying in a manger. But its history is much more complicated than the Nativity. Once a predominantly Christian community, today Bethlehem is mostly Muslim and lies in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, cut off from Jerusalem by a 25-foot wall built by the Israeli government. BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures has a new exhibit that shows a more nuanced side of the little town where Christ was born. It’s called “Returning to Bethlehem: A Cultural Pilgrimage.”