If you enjoy this podcast consider being an Ambassador: www.patrickcoffin.media/donate ***************************************** In this episode you will learn:

• How reliable Matthew is as an historian
• Why describing the Magi a function of myth doesn't not take away from their historicity
• How the colorful additions (Caspar? Melchior? Balthasar? Camels?) to the biblical story arose
• The multiple meanings of "the East" for the Jewish people
• How the arrival and worship of the Magi set the Incarnation onto an international setting
• How to see the accretions of the Magi part of the story with Santa Claus and the original story of St. Nicholas

Resources recommended in this episode:

• Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men by Dwight Longenecker
• More Christianity by Dwight Longenecker
• Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen
• The Day Christ Was Born by Jim Bishop

Question of the week

In what way am I a lost foreigner trying to find the Lord Jesus in my life?

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