A child is born in the Norwalk Hospital 11/22/55
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or this image I have drawn from the New Testament Apocrypha -- "The Infancy Gospel of James." James is believed to have been Jesus' older half-brother; he is therefore likely to be the best eyewitness to Jesus' birth. | |
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| According to James, Joseph is a widower with children from a previous marriage. He weds Mary, a temple virgin, and then to his horror finds that she is pregnant. He does not believe the Immaculate Conception story at first, crying: "Who did this evil thing and defiled her?" in this version, there's no manger, holy star or wise men - rather, Joseph takes Mary to a cave, stating: "Where should I take you to shelter your shame?" This seems to confirm the Pantera story, as if Joseph and the other family members accept the Virgin Birth story simply to protect family honor.
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| Here Mary nurses the Christ child now cloaked in the Immaculate Conception. Joseph and his sons wait outside the cave. The eroticism of this image in Medieval art has always haunted me. Now I aslo see it reflected in my view of the conception and Salome's cradling of the head of John the Baptist.
A child is born in the Norwalk Hospital 11/22/55 |
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