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Two popular weekly magazines, Newsweek and Time, devoted their current issue (Dec. 13) to an extensive cover story on the birth of Jesus. Both magazines probed the questions which scripture scholars, theologians, historians and astronomers have asked for years: Are the Christmas stories in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke the literal truth, or are they stories mostly based on ancient Greek and Roman myths about their national heroes? It is not surprising that neither magazine gave a definite answer to this old question, and concluded that the debate has not been resolved by scholars. I found much in both...