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In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the gospels actually say. Borg and Crossan help us to see this well-known narrative afresh by answering the question, "What do these stories mean?" in the context of both the first century and the twenty-first century. They successfully show that the Christmas story, read in its original context, is far richer and more challenging than people imagine.

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Title of ebook: First Christmas, The
ISBN: 9780061549120
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Internet download file size: 6583 kb
Pages: 272
Released online for download: 10-09-2007
Author of eBook: Borg, Marcus J.

The First Christmas

What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth

Chapter One

The Stories of the First Christmas

In this chapter, we introduce the stories of the first Christmas. Note the plural: we do not have a story of the first Christmas, but two. They are found in Matthew and Luke, two of the four gospels of the New Testament. Each begins with two chapters about the birth of Jesus.

We begin with the texts of Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2. We do so for more than one reason. Though general features of the stories are well known, the more specific details are not. Moreover, people seldom encounter them as "whole narratives"; most often they hear and know them in parts.

A third reason: Matthew's and Luke's stories are quite different from each other. Many Christians as well as non-Christians are not familiar with how different they are. Seeing these differences is utterly crucial to understanding why we (and contemporary biblical scholars generally) see them as we do. It is the foundation for what follows in this book. And so we present the stories by imaginin ... read full excerpt from First Christmas, The ebook



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