In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, show how history has biased our reading of thenativity story as it appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. the First Christmas explores the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the Gospels actually say.
