“It’s essentially saying that the people who recognized the significance of Jesus were not just Jews but people from a totally different culture and a totally different religious system,” Landau said. “One of the points I made in the book is that Christ tells the Magi that even as excited as they are that their prophecy has been fulfilled, that this is actually one of a number of occurrences in which Christ has appeared to people in the world. So, this text seems to be claiming that Christ has actually been the foundation of a number of humanity’s religious revelations.
As one who believes that Christ did indeed manifest Himself to mankind from the beginning, in certain circumstances, this is not hard for me to believe at all.
I would like to read Landau’s book.