Tag: Nazareth

• The Nativity Stories (i) Asking Questions

  Now that December has come, it’s time to revisit the endlessly enchanting nativity stories found in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. I use the word “stories”, firstly because these are not historical accounts and, secondly, because there are two of them, even though the yearly ‘nativity plays’ join them up, and present them as […]

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  14th Dec 2021

  Christmas, Jesus of Nazareth, Mythology, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Bethlehem, Christmas, Gospels, Herod, Luke, Matthew, Nativity, Nazareth

• When and where was Jesus born?

  What I aim to do is to jettison the last 2000 years of dogmas and creeds and to try to take an ‘unbaggaged’ look at Jesus. If we do this, it must immediately strike us that Jesus wasn’t a Christian – there weren’t any until around 45 CE. He was a 1st century Palestinian Jew, […]

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  13th Dec 2020

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Religion

  Bethlehem, Nazareth