Product Description: Scholarly researches on the virgin birth have often focussed rather narrowly on the theological and historical difficulties it tends to raise. The Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Adam, however, provides for the first time a glimpse into the wider background of ideas and myths to which it belonged...read more

A feminist analysis of the first chapters of Matthew and Luke argues that they describe an illegitimate pregnancy and divine sonship and that God sided with a socially rejected woman and her child

The conception and birth of Jesus is one of the most mysterious and challenging stories in the Gospels, surrounded by many signs and miracles. This work explores many parallel stories and prototype characters, drawn from Jewish, Persian, Egyptian and Roman sources. It appeals to those interested in the origins, and future, of the Christian faith.

Product Description: Matthew 1-2 and the Virginal Conception examines early Palestinian and Hellenistic Jewish accounts of the birth of Israel's first redeemer, Moses. The author shows how these accounts provide the background of Mary's "virginal conception" of Jesus, Israel's final redeemer, in Matthew 1-2...read more

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Product Description: (2nd edition) "A truly remarkable study of the deity and virgin birth of Christ [that] may well replace Machen's monumental work as the best study of this vital subject." --John C. Whitcomb (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What historical realities lie behind the birth of Jesus and the description of the Holy Family by the evangelists? In this book, controversial New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann investigates all of the references to Jesus' birth and the Holy Family in the writings of the earliest church and rival Jewish sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Renowned preacher and expositor, John MacArthur strips away cultural and secular clap-trap to get at the true heart of the meaning of Christmas.

A noted Catholic scholar offers biblical evidence that challenges the historicity of the Church's most cherished beliefs (view table of contents)