Re: [asa] The Christmas Story

Do you have a Witherington reference for that? In a recent blog post, he
seems to suggest exactly the opposite: that the story is historically very
credible (
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/12/no-inn-in-room-christmas-sermon-on-lk_09.html
)

On Dec 21, 2007 4:57 PM, David Randall Gabrielse <r.gabrielse@att.net>
wrote:

> Regarding the Census:
> Scholars, including Ben Witherington III, admit that the census is
> problematic historically as there seems not to be an empire-wide census in
> those years.
>
> Yesterday, while reading about the Year of Jubilee in Leviticus. Put
> together with the widely accepted suggestion that Jesus' ministry meant to
> call forth a type of Jubilee, as part of his larger vocation, led me to
> wonder whether Luke speaks of the census (admittedly thirty years before the
> Nazareth confrontation) in order to echo/fulfill the Jubilee call: "It
> shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property
> and to your own clan."
>
> D. Randall Gabrielse
> Director, Areopagus
> RandyG@ISU-Areopagus.org
> 515-290-0607
> www.ISU-Areopagus.org
>
> <http://www.isu-areopagus.org/>*There are (and always have been) two
> narratives on offer: One that configures the world as a competitive
> struggle for power and the other that assumes shalom to be the origin, the
> heart, and goal of the cosmos. Depending on the story you find yourself in,
> your acting part changes*. -- Bill VanGronigen
>

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Received on Fri Dec 21 22:44:09 2007