From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: The Christmas pudding
Nomads and lovers: from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age
Scent, spice, and chemicals: the Iron Age
Bethlehem and Christ: the Classical Age
Helena's church: Christian Rome
The Emperor's new church: Byzantium
Traders to crusaders: the Islamic conquest to the crusader town
Mamluks and Ottomans: thirteenth to nineteenth century
The British: the Victorian Age to the Second World War
Israel: from 1967 to Oslo
The future for the settlers
The future for Bethlehem.
