The phenomena of dreams and the star of Bethlehem in Matthew's birth narrative have intrigued scholars through the ages. Scholarship in this regard went through the stages of identifying theorigin of the material and of arguing the historicity of these events. Currently scholarship is moving into ...
[9] 1 Samuel 17:12 says, "Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had 8 sons, and in Saul's time he was very old." Abraham had 8 sons. The prophet Elijah performed 8 miracles. [10] Abdon, a judge of Israel, served for 8...