NMAR Interviews Scholar of Christmas Brent Landau

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

NMAR: You teach this class on the History of Christmas this semester. How did that come together? What drew you to Christmas studies?

​Landau: Yeah, I mean, I think I had been sort of playing around with the idea of doing a class like this for quite a long time. I mean, I would say way back into my days as a doctoral student, as a sort of a New Testament/early Christianity person, my main area of study and concentration was on infancy narratives – traditions about Jesus's birth and childhood. And I was particularly interested in the apocryphal traditions about...

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