Quotes from James D. Tabor

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

If Mary's parents were indeed named Joachim and Anna,

Davidic lineage of Jesus was so important to the early Christians it is likely that Luke had one of these records available to him.

in Plutarch's account of the birth of Alexander the Great, mother Olympias got pregnant from a snake; it was announced by a bolt of lightning that sealed her womb so that her husband Philip could not have sex with her.