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 ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus' birth at all. The Gospels' different views might be hard to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...