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The Other Shepherd's Story
(I did this Christmas monologue a few years ago and figured I’d share it with you. It begins when a lone shepherd enters, grumbling under his breath. He stops at the front of the sanctuary and addresses the congregation.) Well, … Continue reading
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A New Testament Christmas Hymn
Here is another hymn from the Greek New Testament. This time, it’s Luke 2:29-32, the Nunc dimittis, which makes a fitting Christmas hymn when sung to the tune GREENSLEEVES (“What Child Is This?”): νῦν ἀπολύεις τὸν δοῦλόν σου, δέσποτα, κατὰ … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? Why December 25?
One can make a credible case for January 6, 2 BC as the date of Jesus’ birth and December 25, 2 BC as the date of the visit of the Magi. It would make sense for the two dates to … Continue reading
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William Willimon Has a Blog!
Check out his Christmas meditation. Christians don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t know that God is sovereign, noble, exalted, absolute, high and lifted up. We know that God is in the world, with us, for us, Immanuel. Jesus is a prophet, but prophets, even the … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? Clement of Alexandria
The earliest known discussion of the calendar date of Jesus’ birth comes from Clement of Alexandria (Stromata 1:21), who writes: “From the birth of Christ, therefore, to the death of Commodus are, in all, a hundred and ninety-four years, one … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? Zechariah's Priestly Service
In theory, if one could pinpoint the day on which Zechariah and Elizabeth conceived John the Baptist, one could extrapolate an approximate date of Jesus’ birth. Elizabeth was “in her sixth month” of pregnancy when the angel Gabriel came to … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? The Date of Jesus' Birth?
So far we have discussed the probable year of Jesus’ birth. Along the way, we have established some parameters for narrowing the date even further. The astronomical data point to a series of conjunctions of Jupiter and Regulus between September … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? The Star of Bethlehem
Early patristic sources suggest Jesus was born around 3 or 2 BC. Such a date is plausible if Herod died in 1 BC‚ a view that can be supported from a careful reading of Josephus‚ and if the “Christmas census” … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? The Census
Which Census? Tertullian states that censuses (plural) were conducted in Palestine around the time of Jesus’ birth. There are two viable candidates for the census described in Luke 2. One is the census of 8 BC (the second of three … Continue reading
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When Was Jesus Born? Herod's Death
Modern estimates of the year of Jesus’ birth range from 7 to 4 BC. The writers of the second and third centuries, however, consistently dated the event to between 3 and 2 BC, with an outer range of from 4 … Continue reading
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