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The story is an addition and expansion of the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. [3] It tells about a "fourth" wise man (accepting the tradition that the Magi numbered three), a priest of the Magi named Artaban, one of the Medes from Persia.
Henry van Dyke's 1895 novella The Other Wise Man tells the story of Artaban, a fourth magus whose mission of kindness delays his arrival in Bethlehem by one day, missing Jesus and His parents who by then had fled to Egypt. The rest of the plot revolves around Artaban traveling the world throughout Jesus' 33 years on Earth and of the protagonist ...
Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, "The Other Wise Man" (1896) and "The First Christmas Tree" (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899).
Caspar (otherwise known as Casper, Gaspar, Kaspar, Jasper, Kasper, [1] and other variations) was one of the 'Three Kings', along with Melchior and Balthazar, representing the wise men or Biblical Magi mentioned in Matthew 2:1-9.
The Prophet's appointment of a Young Man of Hudhayl to command the army; The Ecstasy of Báyazíd; The wise, the half-wise, and the foolish; The Three Fishes; The ablutionary Prayers; The Man who failed to profit by the wise counsels of a Bird; Moses and Pharaoh as types of Reason and Imagination; The spiritual vision in which all the senses ...
A Man on the Inside is based on the real-life story of widower Sergio Chamy, who at 83 years old, was hired by private eye Rómulo Aitken to go undercover as a resident at a nursing home in Chile ...