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 ...

the two different Gospel Infancy Narratives by examining a series of scenes in each of the narratives; the unique characteristics of each account; the limits of our historical knowledge about Jesus’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although Christmas is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Bible offers scant information on when Mary gave birth. 'In fact, there's very little about Jesus' birth and infancy ...

Kate Shunney Berkeley Springs author Barbara Ott-Harding has published her newest book, a collection of Bible stories set in ...

Last month, the world celebrated the birth of a child. If we lived in the times when the child was born ... “And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my ...