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Originally posted by Daniel Butler:
Wonder what happens if they bring along a young baby Jesus. Free perfume, incense, and a gold-plated commemorative watch, perhaps?

What if they're called Yusef and Marie or something?

(btw, it's "hi-ho, hi-ho," not "I go, I go." ;P)

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i like Bi-Ho, Bi-ho, It's off to Jerry (Springer) I go....


 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
 
If your name is Herod do get to kill all the babies in the hotel?
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Shouldn't they have to be not married? And carrying a bastard fetus?
 

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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
 
Joseph and Mary were married when they stayed in the inn, TSN. That's why she had to come with him for the census instead of go with her father.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
As far as I can tell, most translations of Luke 2:5 say that Joseph and Mary were "engaged" or "betrothed" or some other version of "not quite married yet".

Not to mention that the whole census story was an anachronism shoe-horned into the story to move Jesus' birth into Bethlehem in an attempt to match up with vague ancient prophecies.
 

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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
 
It meant something different at the time. To be betrothed then wasn't just to be engaged - you couldn't just break it off. It would be as severe as getting a divorce. As I understand it, it was like being married as far as 'property' goes, but you didn't live together or have sex yet.

(And it doesn't matter whether it's true or not - I don't mean to give the impression that it was. The point is if they're going to match up with the story, then what, precisely, is the story?)
 

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