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Not such a white Christmas: Balthasar


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Picture your self in a boat on a river, with tangerine timber and marmalade skies…

Talking of color, in north Europe we not get a lot snow, however our Christmas actually could be very white—celebrated by nativities with white individuals in fancy gown, primarily based on tales by the genteel British names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Welcome as is the rising presence in our faculties of kids from the Middle East, who may think about that’s simply the place all this befell?

And even as soon as we recognise this, the tableau nonetheless isn’t monocultural—as illustrated by the story of the Three Magi. As wiki observes,

The single biblical account in Matthew merely presents an occasion at an unspecified level after Christ’s delivery during which an unnumbered occasion of unnamed “wise men” (μάγοι, mágoi) visits him in a home (οἰκίαν, oikian), not a steady, with…

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