Careful interpretation is needed. These slides discuss some of the issues involved. For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod the Great, who we ...

In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus’ birth is detected by foreign priests, the magi; in Luke it is lowly Jewish shepherds who first learn the news. In Matthew’s narrative, King Herod in Jerusalem hunts ...

And, indeed, this small city in modern-day Palestine is mentioned in the Bible multiple times as the site of Jesus’ birth — even before Jesus was born. In fact, the Jewish Bible claimed that ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that ... Jesus was uniquely inspired by God. Jefferson saw Jesus as a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, (and an) enthusiastic mind ...

One important category is prophecy: Prophecy in the bible refers to the words spoken ... How does this relate to the birth of Jesus? Fast forward a few hundred years to the writers of the Gospels ...

Birthday of Jesus (Yehoshua ben Yosef), a Galilean Jew whose life and teachings inspired the Christian religion, currently the largest in the world. The Maccabees liberated the Holy Temple in ...

These and many other questions will be the subject of homilies across many Christian traditions that celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Counsellor, the Lord, the King of Kings.

Last month, the world celebrated the birth of a child. If we lived in the times when ... “Out of Egypt I called my son,” it is written in the Bible. The story of Jesus is about love and care for even ...