Nativity: the Christmas Story, Which You Have Never Heard Before

Sometimes reading like a historical novel, or a forensics detective story, a melodrama, or a scientific adventure, Nativity takes the reader on a fast, awesome ride of discovery into the real history and real people behind the birth of Christ. Nativity is the ideal reference for pastors, students, and laymen, combining scholarly depth and reliability in a popular writing style easily accessible to all with references for independent study. New elements of meaning and relevance to the NativityScientific evidence virgin births occur as often as identical twins but Jesus was one of a kindThe life and death drama behind Joseph and Mary rarely toldThe real events of Bethlehem and NazarethHerod amazing genius whose architecture excelled Rome, and kept his murdered wife in a jar of honey!Was Jesus incarnated from the time of the Fall?Is the Christmas tree a pagan idol or a biblical image of the Tree of Life? While vigorously defending the traditional faith, Richard Racy gives new insights and new theological perspectives guaranteed to inform and provoke while entertaining in a major new work on the birth of Jesus Christ. A revealing and thought-provoking new book that truly tells us the Christmas story, which we have never heard before!