366: The “Myth” of the Magi—Father Dwight Longenecker

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode you will learn:

How reliable Matthew is as an historian
Why describing the Magi a function of myth doesn’t not take away from their historicity
How the colorful additions (Caspar? Melchior? Balthasar? Camels?) to the biblical story arose
The multiple meanings of “the East” for the Jewish people
How the arrival and worship of the Magi set the Incarnation onto an international setting
How to see the accretions of the Magi part of the story with Santa Claus and the original story of St. Nicholas

Resources recommended in this episode:

Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men by Dwight Longenecker
More Christianity by Dwight Longenecker
Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen
The Day Christ Was Born by Jim Bishop

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 106 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:03.2	We are cranking toward Christmas at an alarming rate of speed.
0:07.1	You're going to love this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:09.5	We're going to go slightly Bible wonky and drill into really the forgotten players in at least Matthew's account of the infancy
0:18.0	who were the magi who were these three were there three were Were they wise? Were they men? And what does it spell for the
0:26.0	incarnation? Maybe our brothers and sisters of the East have it right and focusing on the
0:30.5	epiphany of Jesus Christ in the Natativity. Today we're going to go full magi
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