Bible Review

See Ronald Hock (article) and David Cartlidge (captions), “The Favored One,” BR 17:03.

An infancy gospel is an apocryphal (noncanonical) gospel that recounts stories about Jesus’ and Mary’s parents as well as about Jesus’ birth and childhood.

For more on the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, see Dennis Groh, “The Arian Controversy: How It Divided Early Christianity,” BR 10:01.

On the variations in the gospel accounts of the Nativity, see “Where Was Jesus Born?” BR 16:01, a debate between Steve Mason and Jerome Murphy-O’Connor.

For another theory on how a star could lead the magi, see Dale C. Allison, Jr., “What Was the Star that Guided the Magi?” BR 09:06.

One for 71 B.C.E., in four copies, and one for 69 B.C.E., in five copies.

More accurately 7/6 B.C.E., since the Babylonian lunar year began at the vernal equinox (March/April).

But see “The Stars in the Heavens—Many or a Few?” BR 03:03.