false \ 1500833 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 1500833 4 1492257 book 1 10 2007 The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus's Birth total:47|5:11|4:15|3:19|2:1|1:1| 47 175 77 15 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 4 0 false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:19:24 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:46:34 -0800 2008 2 Of par...more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 4 0 false Sun Dec 28 13:10:35 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 19:54:46 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 13:10:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 5 0 false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 18:32:05 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 04:34:07 -0800 2008 1
Suzanne lent me a new book from the Tomer Library, Marcus Borg and John Crossan's "The First Christmas." It's a discussion of the stories of Jesus's birth in Matthew a...more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 10 04:15:26 -0800 2007 Fri May 02 05:09:14 -0700 2008 Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan successfully argue that the discrepancies found between Luke and Matthew's Christmas stories are only problematic should one chose to take the biblical narratives literally rather than allegorically. Through a careful analysis of language and symbolic representa...more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 09:15:21 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 09:23:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 4 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 17:13:44 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 17:16:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 09:44:09 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 02:51:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Mon Oct 12 11:16:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:17:13 -0700 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 19:51:39 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 19:52:57 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 12 17:36:11 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 21:56:40 -0700 2008
I did not find it inspiring, as I did Borg's earlier work (su...more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 0 0 false Mon Oct 22 04:08:57 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 04:18:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 0 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 05 14:38:09 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 14:38:39 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 5 0 false Fri May 23 06:59:19 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 07:31:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 27 07:54:17 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 07:58:59 -0800 2007 Borg is one my favorite Biblical scholars, we heard him speak at St. James' recently and I bought the book as preparation for Advent and for a class I was teaching at St. James. It was a little into the details at some points but gave new insight into Jesus' birth and the two different accoun...more...]]> 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 17:22:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:21:55 -0800 2008 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 4 0 false Tue Dec 15 17:40:10 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 07:38:52 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 17:40:13 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 5 0 false Wed Dec 09 16:26:35 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 16:26:35 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 3 0 false Fri Dec 11 19:50:07 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 13:54:21 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 19:50:27 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 0 0 false Thu Nov 26 23:40:12 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 20:39:18 -0800 2009 1500833 0061430706 9780061430701 47 15 3.72 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500833.The_First_Christmas_What_the_Gospels_Really_Teach_about_Jesus_s_Birth 0 0 false Sun Nov 22 09:15:30 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 09:15:30 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1500833