Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi (CLICK HERE for it)
The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi is a somewhat technical book written by Michael R. Molnar and published in 1999 by Rutgers University Press. It is technical in that the thrust of the book is that the Star of Bethlehem was the planet Jupiter in a position in the sky that was of importance to the astrologers, that is the “magi”, of the time.
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