You are hereHomeBible ReviewDecember 1993What Was the Star that Guided the Magi? Review of discussion in Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (New York: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 170–173 also Ernest L. Martin, The Birth of Christ Recalculated (Pasadena, CA: Foundation for Biblical Research, 1980), pp. 4–25. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.