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"And this is basically saying I have a source in front of me and I don't think this source is intended to be historical... I construct my argument in the book around the these four things that I call historiographic features."
Source Episode
Were the Christmas stories meant to be history?
For decades, scholars have claimed that ancient birth narratives were never meant to be taken as history. Then one scholar went and actually read them.
New Testament scholar Caleb Friedeman tested that claim against the ancient biographers themselves, and what he found in their own writing doesn't fit the story we've been told.
🔓 Members get the full unedited interview with Caleb, including Shelby's pushback on whether these stories are too beautiful to be real. faithlab.supercast.com (https://faithlab.supercast.com/)
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February 27, 2026