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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4959911, member: 110504&quot;]...For some of us, it&#039;s fun that syncretism was written into the canonical Gospels.&nbsp; (Extant, Yep, Busted, Thank you, in 4th-c. manuscripts.)&nbsp; Especially in the context of Mary and Jesus, and so forth.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got the family going to Egypt --thank you, if I was living then, Alexandria would look like Manhattan, minus the (remember this?) smog.&nbsp; Everybody was there: Egyptians, Jews, and Greeks, in that approximate chronological order, with the Romans as the Irish cop on the streetcorner.&nbsp; ...Thank you, Bebop, and Abstract Expressionism.&nbsp; I would be Having it.</p><p>And the Magi were following some sort of, what, <i>maybe </i>some kind of Zoroastrian-inspired astrology, when they &#039;saw the star in the east.&#039;</p><p>...All of which is to say, I guess, where syncretism and the ostensible absence thereof are concerned, don&#039;t go looking for dichotomies where there just might not be any.</p><p>And, along similar lines, in a context in which so much was &#039;going off,&#039; culturally, at the same time, easy, causal lines of transmission are likely to be overly simplistic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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