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- How reliable Matthew is as an historian
- Why describing the Magi a function of myth doesn’t not take away from their historicity
- How the colorful additions (Caspar? Melchior? Balthasar? Camels?) to the biblical story arose
- The multiple meanings of “the East” for the Jewish people
- How the arrival and worship of the Magi set the Incarnation onto an international setting
- How to see the accretions of the Magi part of the story with Santa Claus and the original story of St. Nicholas
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