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Books : The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.92
EAN: 9780061430701
ISBN: 0061430706
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Studio: HarperOne
Sales Rank: 19849
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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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There's more to Christmas than shepherds, wise men and virgin births...This book puts Christ's birth--what it was--what it meant--to the people of that day and what it means or should mean to the people of our day into perspective....
An outstanding piece of work in putting the Christmas story in context and perspective of the time in which it occurred, so we can understand and appreciate it better and in more meaningful ways. The story is far more meaningful and politically charged ... Read More
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Very good book. For those of you looking for a different perspective than what you are used to on the story of Jesus' birth then this is the book for you.
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Borg and Crossan fill us in on the contemporary events of the Roman Empire in 4BCE which cause Matthew and Luke to tell the (quite political) stories they do. Writing of that time was in parables, not the factual history which marks our age. Pretty intriguing. Don't despair in the heavy bits; keep going...for the plain-English insights of these clear-thinking scholars. Marvellous!
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This book provides a refreshing approach to the christmas stories and helps one to understand the gospel message with greater meaning for the 21st Century.
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The birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are so familiar, heard every Christmas in church and on the radio, that I wasn't sure there was much more I could learn about them. How wrong I was! Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan's book started brilliantly; within the first chapter I was hooked on what they unfolded. They approach the birth narratives as parables/metaphors, not particularly addressing modern-day ideas of historicity but instead looking at the narratives and their structure in terms of ... Read More
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