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The Magi Followed a Star Across an Empire, but Who Were They? Dan E. Hendrickson on the Story Behind Magi Apprentice
Most of us know the Magi from a few lines in a nativity scene. We rarely stop to ask who they were, what they actually knew, or what it would have cost them to cross an empire on the strength of a pattern in the sky. Dan E. Hendrickson did ask, and he turned the question into a novel. He joins Stacey Chillemi to talk about a dying Magi who entrusts a Parthian cavalry officer named Rassan with sacred star charts and sends him in search of the promised one who will save all people. What he shares about the astronomical configurations at the center of the story, the journey to petition for safe…
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