316: The "Myth" of the Magi—Father Dwight Longenecker
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 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 and an alarming rate of speed. |
| 0:07.1 | You're going to love this episode of The Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:09.3 | We're going to go slightly Bible wonky and drill into really the forgotten players |
| 0:15.6 | in at least math use account of the infancy. |
| 0:18.3 | Who with a magi? Who are these three? |
| 0:20.8 | Were they three? Were they wise? Were they men? |
| 0:24.8 | And what does it spell for the incarnation? |
| 0:26.6 | Maybe our brothers and sisters of the East have it right in focusing on |
| 0:30.3 | the epiphany of Jesus Christ in the Nativity. |
| 0:34.0 | Today we're going to go full magi sleuth with Father Dwight Long and Echer. |
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| 1:12.7 | Coming up next, Father Dwight Long and Echer, on The Mystery of the Magi. |
| 1:16.4 | Don't miss it. |
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