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Sunday, December 22

No Room For The Inn? [PsychoReligio]

It's not often these days that my religious tastebuds get tickled, but reading an article in Third Way magazine about there being 'no room for the inn' has kept coming back to mind this weekend. The article considers that, because of a culturally-cultivated mistranslation, we continue to assume that Jesus was born in lonely squallor as a refugee, a searing mental image for the current age. But a modern scholar suggests that wasn't how it happened, and that in fact Jesus was born in the midst of the life of his extended family
in the Palestinian equivalent of a two-bedroom semi
(In American that's a duplex I believe). For me this completes the picture. I hope it helps for you too.

posted at 8:33 PM (UK) | |

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