Great article and well researched. It is a bit complicated to me, but it is great that a person can go back so many years and prove what was writen in the bible is something that really happened.Hi @vuyusile
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Thanks for your comment. I must offer caution about concluding that we can prove the Biblical account. That is because at best it is a second hand account written to promote faith rather than offer a scientific record. The Magi did not tell us, save in general terms and not with language that we would find definitive, what they were looking at and what motivated them to undertake their journey, save, as I said, for their apparent faith.
There are several aspects of the account which have presented difficulties for a critical reader. These include historical dating of the birth event and scientific incredulity at the claim that a star could have guided the travelling Magi. My articles will at best provide rational plausibility; an argument that says that given what was there to be seen, we can advance plausible reason for their behaviour; and that we should be slow to dismiss a story about men from an elite class (astronomers) that left a privileged background in a cosmopolitan centre to come looking for an infant in the relative backwoods of Jerusalem. And to arrive there and declare with confidence that they were seeking a child of royal birth; and once they had found him, to pay homage to him.
These are all extraordinary claims, given the historical context. I hope that my findings might examine that context and find reason to be more reflective when considering the truth claims of the account.