Ask a random stranger what Christmas is all about and sooner or later someone will say something about “the birth of Jesus”. And, of course, as many theologians and historians have pointed out for centuries, if any of the Biblical accounts of the Nativity are even close to accurate, ...
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It was very faithful to the biblical accounts. While I wasn’t convinced that all of the ways they acted out the story were the best, those issues were minor and their interpretations were generally within the bounds of viable options. I was initially disappointed with how abruptly the movie ...
ComparetotheChineseNewYear,Christmasistalkingaboutthepeople, Jesus.TheNativityreferstothebirthofJesus.ThestoryofChristmasisbasedonthe biblicalaccountsgivenintheGospelofMatthewandtheGospelofLuke.According totheseaccounts,JesuswasborntotheVirginMary,assistedbyherhusbandJoseph, inthecityofBethLethem.TheinfantJesuswas...
1.The biblical books included in the Septuagint and accepted in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox canon but considered noncanonical by Protestants because they are not part of the Hebrew Scriptures. See Table atBible. 2.Various early Christian writings proposed as additions to the New Testament but ...
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So, if the source isn’t biblical, how was December 25 first linked to Jesus’ birth? Prior to the existence of Christmas…Romans already had multiple celebrations around that same time of the year, as did many others around the world…. ...
First, the establishing and critical elucidation of the biblical texts; alongside it, the editions of the great patristic commentators; then, the exegetical works properly so called, in which these two fundamental researches yield their fruit; and finally, the methodological works, which in their ...
My New Year’s Day menu once again included a dish featuring black-eyed peas. I have done this for…decades, now. I do this in honor of my father and his heritage: specifically, his family’s tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day – an act of culinary optimism whic...
Sometimes love is sharp, hard-edged, confusing, and seemingly unfair. Some time ago I read the synoptic Gospels with a group of literature students, only a few of whom professed to be “reasonably familiar” with the material in those books. We made our way through the Nativity stories, th...