The more we know about the Old Testament, therefore, the more we will track with the Gospel accounts of Christ’s life. Edward Sri is a theologian, author and speaker.

The whole episode with Daniel and the magi should feel like biblical déjà vu. Another famous Old Testament king had a penchant for keeping his court packed with wise men, astrologers, and ...

They came. They saw. They gifted. That's about all we know of the foreign visitors who traveled to Bethlehem to see the infant Jesus. The scene ingrained in the public imagination -- a stately ...

Christmas Day may be Dec. 25, but it’s not the end of Christmas story. In many Western Christian traditions, there are 12 days of Christmas, culminating around Jan. 6, known as the feast of the ...

We learn from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament (Daniel 2:10) and other historical writings that the Magi were members of a priestly group descended from a tribe associated with the Medes ...

Original artwork by Saint Bernard parishioner Jake Hopkins. In last week's column I started a look at the bible's stories of the birth of Jesus by saying that while it's common to combine the two ...

That’s why, for example, Matthew often includes references to the Old Testament. But the coming of the Magi challenges that Jewish focus. For one thing, the Magi were foreigners, pagans ...

The star led the Magi to Jerusalem, “as we are always taken to Jerusalem—because we must encounter the Scriptures of Israel,” says David Neuhaus, S.J. “It is from the Scriptures of Israel ...

Their prophetic entrance contrasts with the portrayal of two Magi in later New Testament passages: Simon Magus tried to buy magic powers from the Apostle Peter (Acts 8: 9-24) and at Paphos, in ...