Bintang Betlehem

Adoration of the Magi oleh pelukis Florentine Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337). Bintang Betlehem ditunjukkan sebagai komet di atas kanak-kanak itu. Giotto menyaksikan kemunculan Komet Halley pada tahun 1301.

Bintang Betlehem, atau Bintang Krismas, muncul dalam kisah kelahiran Injil Matius bab 2 di mana "orang bijak dari Timur" (Majus) diilhamkan oleh bintang itu untuk mengembara ke Baitulmaqdis. Di sana, mereka bertemu dengan Raja Herodes dari Yudea, dan bertanya kepadanya:

Di manakah Dia yang telah dilahirkan sebagai Raja orang Yahudi? Sebab kami telah melihat bintang-Nya di Timur dan kami datang untuk menyembah Dia.

Bibliografi

• Brown, Raymond E. (1973). The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-0809117680.
• Brown, Raymond E. (1999). The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300140088.
• Brown, Raymond E. (1988). An Adult Christ at Christmas: Essays on the Three Biblical Christmas Stories. Liturgical Press. ISBN 0-8028-3931-2.

Pautan luar

• Case, Shirley Jackson (2006). Jesus: A New Biography, Gorgias Press LLC: New Ed. ISBN 1-59333-475-3.
• Coates, Richard (2008) 'A linguist's angle on the Star of Bethlehem', Astronomy and Geophysics, 49, pp. 27–49
• Consolmagno S.J., Guy (2010) Looking for a star or Coming to Adore?
• Gill, Victoria: Star of Bethlehem: the astronomical explanations and Reading the Stars by Helen Jacobus with link to, Jacobus, Helen, Ancient astrology: how sages read the heavens/ Did the heavens predict a king?, BBC
• Jenkins, R.M., "The Star of Bethlehem and the Comet of 66AD Diarkibkan 2018-10-05 di Wayback Machine", Journal of the British Astronomy Association, June 2004, 114, pp. 336–43. This article argues that the Star of Bethlehem is a historical fiction influenced by the appearance of Halley's Comet in AD 66.
• Larson, Frederick A. What Was the Star?
• Nicholl, Colin R., The Great Christ Comet: Revealing the True Star of Bethlehem. Crossway, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4335-4213-8
• Star of Bethlehem Bibliography. Provides an extensive bibliography with Web links to online sources.