"The Virgin Birth Tradition: What Really Happened at Bethlehem," is virtually guaranteed to become at once, both, one of the most decisive and controversial works ever written on this topic. In its ground-breaking debut, it provides astonishing new evidence, for the first time ever divulged, inextricably linking Matthew's nativity narrative to the earliest Jewish-Christian community based at Jerusalem, whose marked affiliation with the Dead Sea sect called Essenes] - (in lieu of these present disclosures) - can no longer seriously be questioned Remarkably, our author convincingly delineates for the general public, a "sectarian code" encapsulated within Matthew's birth story, cryptically supplying its Essenic constituency with the most reliable information we now have, concerning the actual whereabouts and provocative circumstances surrounding Jesus' nativity As for the answer to the question proposed by its title, the contents of this work are so thoroughly engaging, the reader will find little difficulty in waiting for the ultimate outcome Highly recommended reading for any serious student of the New Testament