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1 online resource |
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Themes in Biblical Narrative |
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Themes in biblical narrative.
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Prologue; List of Figures and Tables; List of Other Attendants; Part 1 From Kepler to Molnar-The History of the Interpretation of the Star; Chapter 1 Kepler's De Vero Anno (1614); Chapter 2 The Historical Basis for the Star of Bethlehem; Chapter 3 A Critical Look at the History of Interpreting the Star of Bethlehem in Scientific Literature and Biblical Studies; Chapter 4 An Astronomical and Historical Evaluation of Molnar's Solution; Chapter 5 Astronomical Thoughts on the Star of Bethlehem |
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Chapter 6 De Ster der Wijzen (1920): A Forgotten Early Publication about the Star of BethlehemPart 2 The Star-What, When, and How; Chapter 7What, If Anything?; Chapter 8 The Astronomical Resources for Ancient Astral Prognostications; Part 3 Ancient Near-Eastern Astrology and the Magi; Chapter 9 Mesopotamian Astrological Geography; Chapter 10 The Story of the Magi in the Light of Alexander the Great's Encounters with Chaldeans; Chapter 11 Pre-Islamic Iranian Astral Mythology, Astrology, and the Star of Bethlehem; Part 4 Astrology in the Greco-Roman World |
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Chapter 12 Matthew's Magi as Experts on KingshipChapter 13 Greco-Roman Astrologers, the Magi, and Mithraism; Chapter 14 The Star of Bethlehem and Greco-Roman Astrology, Especially Astrological Geography; Part 5 Astrology in the Jewish World; Chapter 15 The World Leader from the Land of the Jews: Josephus, Jewish War 6.300-315; Tacitus, Histories 5.13; and Suetonius, Vespasian 4.5; Chapter 16 Stars and Powers: Astrological Thinking in Imperial Politics from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba; Chapter 17 Balaam's 'Star Oracle' (Num 24:15-19) in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Bar Kokhba |
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Part 6 The Early Christian WorldChapter 18 The Star of the Magi and the Prophecy of Balaam in Earliest Christianity, with Special Attention to the Lost Books of Balaam; Chapter 19 Matthew's Star, Luke's Census, Bethlehem, and the Quest for the Historical Jesus; Chapter 20 Matthew, the Parthians, and the Magi: A Contextualization of Matthew's Gospel in Roman-Parthian Relations of the First Centuries BCE and CE; Epilogue; Indices; 1. Index of Modern Authors; 2. Index of Biblical References; 2.1 Jewish Scriptures; 2.2 New Testament Writings; 3. Index of Ancient Sources |
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3.1 Ancient Near-Eastern Sources3.2 Jewish Sources; 3.3 Christian Sources; 3.4 Greco-Roman Pagan Sources; 3.5 Papyri; 4. Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book is the fruit of the first interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discussions and the exchange of the interdisciplinary views proved to be immensely fruitful and resulted in the present book. Its twenty chapters describe the various aspects of The Star: the history of its interpretation, ancient near-eastern astronomy and astrology and the Magi, astrology in the Greco-Roman and the Jewish worlds, and the early Christian world - at a generally accessible level. An epilogue summarizes the fact-fiction balance of the most famous star which has ever shone |
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Papers edited from a colloquium The Star of Bethlehem: Historical and Astronomical Perspectives held October 22-24, 2014 in Groningen, Netherlands |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Star of Bethlehem -- Congresses
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Magi -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Christology.
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Magi
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Star of Bethlehem
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barthel, Peter, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004308473 |
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9004308474 |
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