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Okay ... I've gone through the pile of links on the bethlehem star that 
have appeared in Explorator or should have over the past triennium and 
these are the ones that are still alive and worth reading ... lots of 
Molnar stuff inter alia ... he seems to be a fave Christmas subject:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/bethlehem.html (good introductory biblio 
on this one)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/226081.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/christmasstar991220.html
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/12/22/52.asp
http://www.archaeology.org/9811/abstracts/star.html
http://earthsky.com/Features/Articles/star-of-bethlehem.html
http://asia.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/30/bethlehem.star/
http://www.naplesnews.com/today/religion/d407269a.htm
http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0001/01/12170013.htm
http://www.earthsky.com/Features/Articles/stars.html

.... and here's Molnar's own website, with a really annoying mouse follow thing:

http://www.eclipse.net/~molnar/index.html

dm


At 07:02 PM 19/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Cf. Simo Parpola, "The Magi and the Star" in the current issue of Bible 
>Review, online at:
>
>http://www.bib-arch.org/brd01/magi1.html
>
>footnote one gives a good reason why this occultation doesn't make sense.
>
>dm

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