Daniel J. Harrington [SEP] place of death
Daniel J. Harrington
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. (July 19, 1940February 7, 2014), was Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (formerly Weston Jesuit School of Theology).
A member of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Harrington served as editor of "New Testament Abstracts" from 1972 until his death. He also edited the eighteen-volume "Sacra Pagina" series of New Testament commentaries for Liturgical Press and wrote "The Word"
constructed by combining the two.
Neither Luke nor Matthew claims their birth narratives are based on direct testimony. James Hastings and, separately, Thomas Neufeld have expressed the view that the circumstances of Jesus' birth were deliberately kept restricted to a small group of early Christians, and were kept as a secret for many years after his death, thus explaining the variations in the accounts in Luke and Matthew.
Daniel J. Harrington expresses the view that due to the scarcity of ancient records, a number of issues regarding the historicity