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Chapter 1: “Star of Wonder”
1
â“We Three Kings,” by John Henry Hopkins (1792â1868).
2
âWikipedia, s.v. “Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,”
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âSee “Star Light, Star Bright,” Palmer Lake Historical Society,
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4
âWikipedia, s.v. “Christmas in Poland,”
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5
âMaria Hubert von Staufer, “Christmas in Poland,”
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âIbid.; Barbara Rolek, “Polish Christmas Traditions,”
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âRebecca Luczycki, “Starring in the Night,”
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âMike Rich,
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âTony Jordan,
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âAlbert Ross,
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âRoma Downey and Mark Burnett,
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12
âMark R. Kidger,
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(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), xi.
13
âIbid., ix.
14
âIbid., ixâx.
15
âOne positive recent development on this front was the multidisciplinary colloquium on the Star of Bethlehem at the University of Groningen on October 23â24, 2014; see
http://
www
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.rug
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16
âR. A. Oriti, “The Star of Bethlehem,”
The Griffith Observer
39.12 (December 1975): 9.
17
âKidger,
Star of Bethlehem
, viii.
18
âRaymond Brown,
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, 2nd ed. (New York: Doubleday, 1993), 612 (italics his). He goes on to state that Matthew's nativity account might be deemed essentially or partly historically accurate if we allow for poetic license and the use of symbolism.
19
âMy translation.
20
âI prefer “magi” (ESV footnote) to the rendering “wise men” (ESV text) and therefore will use that term (and “the Magi”) throughout.
21
âMy translation.
22
âIn deference to the preposition that follows (“over” or “above”), I have translated the phrase “came and
stood
” (cf. NASB) rather than “came to rest” (cf. ESV). See Josephus,
J.W.
6.5.3 (§289) for the expression “stood over” in an astronomical context.
23
âIn this context, “double-crossed” would probably be a preferable translation to “tricked.”
24
âMatthew's “two years old or under” actually means “one year old or under,” since the Jews reckoned that a baby in the first year of life was already “one year old” and in the second year of life was “two years old.” (See, for example, Robert H. Gundry,
Matthew
:
A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution
, 2nd ed. [Grand Rapids, MI: EerdÂmans, 1994], 35). “In their second year or under” is a preferable, dynamic-equivalent translation of the Greek.
25
âCf. David W. Hughes,
The Star of Bethlehem Mystery
(London: J. M. Dent, 1979), 13.