The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth Karma Brown and her own unfailing belief

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The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth Karma Brown and her own unfailing beliefIn The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known