Manger - The Video Bible Dictionary

Disclaimer: This is our first run at the Video Bible Dictionary, we're going to be continually improving it, we'd love your feedback, so please help us make this better and leave a comment below letting us know what you think.
Perhaps you thought a manger was a little wooden construction, with crossed wooden legs?? Well, that might be what we've been told and taught, however an actual manger was similar, but completely different! :)
In this Video Bible Dictionary entry we take a look at an actual ancient manger, it's size, shape and depth, although it should be noted they do come in different sizes.
This was filmed on location in Israel (not far from Jerusalem).
Actor - Richie Savo
Camera - Hamish Jordan
Edited - Jonnie Conibeer
Produced, Directed - Mark Murfitt
A manger was mentioned in the following scriptures:
Luke 2:1-21
Transcript:
"Manger.
A manger is a feeding trough or box that holds food for larger farm animals like cows, sheep, horses and donkeys.
People carved mangers out of stone into a block shape.
They carved a hole into the top to hold food for the animals.
Mangers were usually 30cm to 75cm high.
People made some mangers lower for shorter animals like sheep and goats, and people made other mangers higher for taller animals like donkeys, cows and horses.
People put mangers in stables where animals lived.
Stables were normally attached to homes.
In some homes the ground floor was used as a stable.
Jesus’s mother wrapped him in cloth and then laid him in a manger after he was born."
What is the Video Bible Dictionary?
How do you explain what a desert wilderness is to someone who’s only ever lived in a jungle? Or how can a person understand what a winnowing fork is when they’ve never seen one?
The Video Bible Dictionary is an ambitious project to film items, objects and places mentioned in the Bible which will be collated into a single resource (a dictionary of sorts) to help people understand and read the Bible; basically what the things and places in the Bible really look like.
Who’s it for?
The primary audience is for Oral Preference Learners, however everyone and anyone will benefit from a more literal understanding of actual places and items from the Bible.
What’s an Oral Preference Learner?
A person who prefers to listen, learn and pass on information orally rather than through reading (most of us, right?). This ‘person’ finds context critical in understanding the world around them, hence every video in the Video Bible Dictionary will show the item, object and place in context of a person.
By way of an example; do you remember those old school textbooks which showed a silhouette of a dinosaur with a silhouette of a person standing next to them? It gave you an understanding of how big the dinosaur was compared to a person, right? This is the same thing.
Why do this?
The Video Bible Dictionary is part of a larger project to provide a resource to support the local church around the world as they teach and share Jesus with those who have yet to hear about Him.
Who do you work for?
This project is being produced by SRV in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators and ETEN (short for ‘Every Tribe Every Nation’).
Who am I?
My name is Mark Murfitt, I live in the UK and it’s my privilege to produce and direct these videos as well as to oversee the script writing and media production for this project.
Is something like this really necessary?
Absolutely.
For many people, in both developed and developing countries, much of what we’re videoing isn’t known, understood or believed to actually be real.
Is this work copyright protected?
The source video and voiceover are shareable, this version with the music isn’t unfortunately.
This version contains material that has some form of copyright and cannot be freely distributed. For a shareable version of this video under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, please contact us!
* There may be other scriptures where this item, object or place is featured, this isn't and shouldn't be used as an exclusive list

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Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, a residential complex, a kilometer from Qumran. It was originally a palace for Hasmonean royalty. It was called the 'Queen's House. Because animals were also stabled there, it was called the 'Manger'.