I'm joined today again with Father Dwight Longenecker, the author of Mystery of the Magi.

We did a previous interview on that book about the history, theology, devotion, and tradition

of the wise men and the birth of Christ. And you can find more of his

information at Dwight Longenecker.com.

Father Longenecker welcome back.

Thank you.

Now you just got back from the Holy Land and from Petra some of the places that we

discussed in that previous video how was that? It was fantastic and it was

encouraging to me you know the my thesis is that the wise men did not come from Persia but they came from

Petra on a comparatively short journey to Jerusalem and so I was pleased to talk to

the both the Jordanian guide and the Israeli guide who both said immediately,

oh yes, yes, out here everybody thinks they came from from Arabia from Petra.

So that was encouraging to me.

That's amazing, yeah. Yeah. And I saw on the pictures that you encouraging to me. That's amazing, yeah.

And I saw on the pictures that you went to the famous Petra,

I don't know what it's called, that shrine,

it's built into the rock, what is that called?

It's called, the Treasury,

and it's actually been I think it is actually

Parrottus the fourth the very king that would have sent the wise men to the Christ

child at that time period at the time period at the time of the birth of our Lord, the kingdom of the Nabateans at Petra was at its height and Aratus the fourth is one of the key kings.

That was his throne.

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