dated 1 CE (i hate that term - it is AD) with crosses all over the place.
interesting...
Israeli Jews are probably the last people who are likely to want to make any acknowledgement of Christ being the Messiah by using the term ‘Anno Domini’ for fairly obvious reasons.....
Just look at it like I do.
BCE - Before the Christian Era
CE - Christian Era
Of course you realize that the cross did not even begin to be used as a Christian symbol until the second century, and did not become popular until the 4th century.
I think the crosses come from some other source than early Christians.
Interesting — they didn’t have crosses til 33 AD minimum...
I wonder if the cave was used by Christians later on, centuries after it was built.