200 words: Repetition as Revelation The astrologers come from the East to Jerusalem, led by the ‘star.’ They depart from King Herod: There in front of them was the star they had seen rising. It went forward and halted over the place where the child was (Matthew 2). What is the star? A cosmic event? The conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn on February 20, 6 BC? The 2007 proposal of Grant Matthews, Astrophysicist at Notre Dame University, is possible. A symbol perhaps? That
