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The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In some ways the narratives of Jesus’ birth and infancy are the last frontiers to be crossed in the critical approach to the Gospels. For some, the stories of Jesus’ birth are given dubious historical value. For others, the popular character of these narratives—the exotic magi, birth star, angelic messengers, and so on—renders them as legends unworthy to be a vehicle of the pure Gospel message....

that allowed for an irregularity in the birth, but at the same time, defended the purity of the mother and the sanctity of the child. Partly apologetic and partly theological factors may have been involved in the development of a pre-Matthean story that drew a parallel between Joseph the legal father of Jesus and Joseph the patriarch who dreamed dreams and went to Egypt (see Table VII). This same story had Jesus delivered from the hands of a wicked king who slaughtered male children—a deliverance
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