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366: The “Myth” of the Magi—Father Dwight Longenecker


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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

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