Lost Syriac Text Gives Magi’s View of the Christmas Story

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What do we really know about the magi, those gift-bearing wise men from the east who are so central to the traditional telling of the Christmas story?

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Footnotes

See Robin M. Jensen, “Witnessing the Divine: The Magi in Art and Literature,” Bible Review 17:06.