joining the procession through the years, a new "docudrama" (History Channel, Easter 2013) considers the "Star of Bethlehem" and the "Magi"...
alignments of planets, comets, occultations, super novae... comparisons with Chinese records, numismatics... Philo, Josephus, Dionsius Exiguus, Herod, Augustus...
common, misleadingly-simplistic computer graphics of "space"; hokie cartoon images of the magi observing the sky, acameling to Jerusalem...time estimates of travel, etc
but the 6-7 scientists, astronomers, ministers...all seemed like children playing at Biblical explanation
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