The modern interpretation of chapter two of the Gospel of Matthew, which is the only part in which the story of the Magi comes out, considers this episode as a theological story. In ancient times, when someone wanted to express a theological idea, they would make up a story and put it under the cover of a famous person from Jewish antiquity. Matthew applies the story of the Magi to show that the Messiah is a universal Messiah. Matthew uses The Book of Numbers and the story of Moses to narrate this episode.
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What is the origin of Christmas?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
