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The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus's Birth Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Marcus J. Borg; John Dominic Crossan

The follow-up to "The Last Week," this is Borg and Crossan's account of the two nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Focusing on the meaning of the Christmas story, the authors hope that readers will see the nativity story anew and appreciate the Gospels' powerful message.


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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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  • Title The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus's Birth
  • Author Marcus J. Borg; John Dominic Crossan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperOne
  • Date 2009-10-06
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780061430718 / 0061430714
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 6.48 x 0.65 in (20.42 x 16.46 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Christmas
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Mainline
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Jesus Christ - Nativity
  • Dewey Decimal Code 232.921
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