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BOOK "TABARI CHRONICLES"
BY ABU YA'FAR AL-TABARI (9th c.)

one of the greatest historians
of the Muslim world. Éditions
de la Ruche 2006
Translation Hermann Zotemberg
(France, 21th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection

MAGI ASTROLOGERS ARRIVE FROM SYRIA

“When Jesus came into the world without a father and Herod heard about him, he was very surprised. Ten days later, men came from Syria to Jerusalem to see Jesus, because they had heard that a child had been born without a father. They were astrologers, well versed in the science of the stars, who had found in the books of astrology that on such and such a day in Palestine a child would be born without being fathered.” Al Tabari