It would be safe to surmise that a great many in our secular culture think that the Star in the infancy narrative of Jesus is more or less a fictional literary device to develop a plot. Theissen and Merz’s The Historical Jesus summarizes this idea: “In Matt. 2 we have a miraculous traveling star, a phenomenon which cannot be described in astronomical categories . . . many exegetes think it absurd to look for a historical nucleus behind Matt. 2.”
Was the Star of Bethlehem a Real Event?
Was the Star of Bethlehem a Real Event?
Was the Star of Bethlehem a Real Event?
It would be safe to surmise that a great many in our secular culture think that the Star in the infancy narrative of Jesus is more or less a fictional literary device to develop a plot. Theissen and Merz’s The Historical Jesus summarizes this idea: “In Matt. 2 we have a miraculous traveling star, a phenomenon which cannot be described in astronomical categories . . . many exegetes think it absurd to look for a historical nucleus behind Matt. 2.”