title: Christmas: The Original Story
author:  Margaret Barker 
description: Margaret Barker is an independent biblical scholar and former President of the Society for Old Testament Study and a member of the Ecumenical Patriarch's Symposium on Religion, Science and the Environment; and a Methodist local preacher.
zlib_text: **A Vintage Christmas**
  
  TRISHA ASHLEY
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2015
  
  Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2015
  
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