Seven years ago, I profiled an astronomer who thinks the Star of Bethlehem was Jupiter. He makes a fascinating and plausible case–one that is anything but an attack on the original story, by the way.
While we’re on the subject of Christmas, here’s a piece I called “Christmiscellany,” which is a grab-bag of information about the holiday.
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--Vince Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pursuit of Honor
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--Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Apostle
"The story moves with swift suspense, but Miller's real achievement is to take us inside a mindset nearly lost to time, and to create identifiable, sympathetic characters on all sides, including those who are willing to do murder to preserve the Confederacy and its "'peculiar institution.'"
--Andrew Klavan, author of Empire of Lies
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--Robert Ferrigno, author of Heart of the Assassin
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Just recently there was a great TV piece on the Star of Bethlehem on one of the Nat Geo channels. Hope you caught it.