Apocryphal Christmas, once again

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Christmas Stories in Christian Apocrypha. The birth of Jesus in the apocryphal gospels (Tony Burke). I have linked to this essay before, but this is a good time to do it again.

For more on the Protevangelium of James, see here and links. For more on the infancy gospels, see the links collected here.

Cross-file under New Testament Apocrypha Watch and 'Tis the Season.

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