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Bethlehem IS part of the land of Jerusalem.
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The point is that there is nothing in modern revelation which specifically says that Jesus was born at Bethlehem. The only scriptural sources that do are Matthew and Luke and their explainations of how Jesus got there are not plausible. So there is every reason to suppose that Jesus wasnt born there at all or if he was, the real reason he grew up in Nazareth and not Bethlehem has been buried beneath oral tradition.
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Just out of curiosity, could you name a few people you consider to be LDS scholars?
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I have recently sent e-mails to several scholars who often appear on the LDS round table discussions on the BYU channel. I'll let you know what they say. But I'm familiar with several student manuals and commentaries and none of them have ever aknowledged the contradictary stories of Jesus' birth.