Human beings tend to imagine themselves as appearing in the midst of a greater history that is already in progress. In order ...

beyond which Jewish residency – permanent or temporary – was mostly forbidden. Birthday of Jesus (Yehoshua ben Yosef), a Galilean Jew whose life and teachings inspired the Christian religion ...

was in Jewish Samaria. To explain the arithmetic, per Christian theology, Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Humble) calculated the calendar to make the Year 1 (not 0) the year of Jesus’ birth ...

Luke thus presents a ten-year discrepancy in the benchmarks he offers about the year of ... How might Christmas be a time for Christians to seek to draw closer to Jesus in his Jewish humanity? Luke’s ...

In gratitude, the sages decreed that the Jewish firstborn at that ... a world chess champion for an unprecedented 27 years, from 1894 to 1921. Birthday of Jesus (Yehoshua ben Yosef), a Galilean ...

It makes sense if you think about it. A bris is traditionally held eight days after the birth of a Jewish boy. Jesus was a Jew. And New Year’s Day is eight days after Christmas, the celebration ...

In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus’ birth is detected by foreign priests, the magi; in Luke it is lowly Jewish shepherds who first learn the news ... for influence in Judaism in the power-vacuum left by ...