(The Conversation) — As Christmas approaches, Nativity scenes showing three wise men visiting the newborn ... Take, for example, the New Testament Book of Acts, which mentions two magi: one ...

The story of the wise men has inspired artists for ... with churches unable to even agree on the number of magi; with western churches settling on three and other traditions suggesting there ...

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