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Title: The Star of Bethlehem Title Record # 1059804
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1954-12-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
Note: First published as "What Was the Star of Bethlehem?" in Holiday, December 1954. See Clarke's short story ''The Star'' (1955) for an adroit use of the same material in fiction.
Synopsis: In search of a scientific explanation of ''His star in the East'' which, according to the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-4), marked the birth of Jesus.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1959 The Star of the Magi
1991 What Was the Christmas Star?
Year Language Title
1960Translated by Heinz Gartmann
German Der Stern der Weisen
1985Translated by Klaus Sticker
German Der Stern der Weisen

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened 1999-00-00 Arthur C. Clarke Voyager 0-00-224697-X
£19.99?£: UK pound
xviii+
558
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 1999-08-00 Arthur C. Clarke St. Martin's Press 0-312-19893-0
$35.00?$: US dollar
xvii+
558
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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