The Birth and Childhood of Jesus: From the Birth of Jesus Through His Twentieth Year (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461005704)

If not satisfied for any reason let us know for a full refund! Keep the book or give it away. Peace to you and enjoy! The Birth and Childhood of Jesus through His 20th year This is the fullest account of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph) from his birth on August 21, 7 B.C. through his twentieth year. It chronicles the events of his birth, his youth, the acts of Herod, the death of his father, and his teenage years struggling to support his family. In striking detail his home life as a youth and the challenges he and his family face day to day come alive. All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger. These wise men saw no star to guide them to Bethlehem. The beautiful legend of the star of Bethlehem originated in this way: Jesus was born August 21 at noon, 7 B.C. On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces. And it is a remarkable astronomic fact that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events the well-meaning zealots of the succeeding generation constructed the appealing legend of the star of Bethlehem and the adoring Magi led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and worshiped the newborn babe. Oriental and near-Oriental minds delight in fairy stories, and they are continually spinning such beautiful myths about the lives of their religious leaders and political heroes. In the absence of printing, when most human knowledge was passed by word of mouth from one generation to another, it was very easy for myths to become traditions and for traditions eventually to become accepted as facts.