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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