For comparison, “The Star,” a 2017 animated feature about the birth of Jesus from the perspective of the animals present, leaned into slapstick humor — a strategy that seemed to connect with ...

He was close, however, to peasant society; all of the images in his parables and ... What does that imply about his background and his class? Jesus being born in Nazareth and growing up in ...

the two different Gospel Infancy Narratives by examining a series of scenes in each of the narratives; the unique characteristics of each account; the limits of our historical knowledge about Jesus’s ...