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The Birth of the Messiah (Anchor Bible Reference Library): by Raymond Brown. Anchor Bible, 1993.
Whether you are Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, whatever, this book is the place to start for anyone interested in the gospel infancy stories. Brown carefully analyzes chapters 1 and 2 of Matthew and Luke to show us the many, many quotes and allusions to the Old Testament they contain and the message the infancy narratives are intended to deliver. After all, what exactly were
the reasons these chapters were included?
The book is accessible and useful to readers of all levels from the interested layman to the hardcore scholar. The scholarly notes he includes on each verse can easily be skipped and left to the specialist.
Brown follows his usual rules of analysis: each gospel is analyzed independently and the reader is always cautioned not to read into one gospel what is present in the other; and he only uses material that was present at or near the time the gospels were composed. Any commentary or interpretation that was composed after 100 AD is not allowed. And by following these guidelines, the two
gospels can be seen even by the ordinary reader in a whole new light.
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St. Catherine of Alexandria: November 25. 310.
According to the Legend of St. Catherine, this young woman converted to Christianity after receiving a vision. At the age of 18, she debated 50 pagan philosophers. Amazed at her wisdom and debating skills, they became Christians—as did about 200 soldiers and members of the emperor’s family. All of them were martyred.
Sentenced to be executed on a spiked wheel, Catherine touched the wheel and it shattered. She was beheaded. Centuries later, angels are said to have carried the body of Saint Catherine to a monastery at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
Devotion to her spread as a result of the Crusades. She was invoked as the patroness of students, teachers, librarians and lawyers. Catherine is one of the 14 Holy Helpers, venerated especially in Germany and Hungary.
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