One of the most interesting aspects of the Magi story is how we got it wrong for so long. Most people (if they think the Magi were historical at all) assume they were Persian wizards. They assume this because Matthew uses the word "magoi" to speak of the wise men. The word "magoi" is a Persian [...]
If you didn't know it already, most New Testament scholars consider the story of the Three Wise Men to be a pious, late invented fiction. In fact it was pretty hard to even get any New Testament scholars to read the manuscript of my new book The Mystery of the Magi-the Quest to Identify the Three Wise [...]
My new book Mystery of the Magi-The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men will be published on November 6. This is a departure for me because the book is published by a non-Catholic publisher in their history division. In other words, it is not specifically Catholic for a Catholic audience. It is intended to reach [...]
Anybody who has taken New Testament 101 will know that the liberal Bible scholars have dissected the gospels like vultures picking over a corpse. I mustn't be too harsh. The literary, form and historical critics of the gospels have contributed a lot to our knowledge of the sacred Scriptures. However, they have often worked from materialist [...]