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The Jesus Seminar, an assembly of scholars dedicated to retrieving the Jesus of annals, is a battalion in this long-running heritage war. One of its constituents, Robert J. Miller, a lecturer of belief at Juniata College, composed "Born Divine: Jesus and Other Sons of God," a 2003 publication which contends that the Nativity narratives can be glimpsed as Christian answers to the birth tales of pagan champions like Alexander the Great and Caesar Augustus--literary efforts depicting Jesus as a divine number in a way Greco-Roman listeners and readers would realize and appreciate.

If we dissect the tales with care, we ...