What do we really know about such "wise men" in Babylon (or Persia) of that time? Is there, in addition to Mat 2, any extrabiblical evidence?
Last chapter of The Kabbalah by Adolphe Franck - The Kabbalah and the Religion of the Chaldeans and Persians
Also, Olmstead, The History of the Persian Empire (great reading)
See both for magi and Zoroastrianism and their effects on Semitic religion and even Christianity.
rich
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