Is the Star of Bethlehem the North Star?
the North Star (Polaris.) It mentions the star “rising in the East [sic]”. Based on the location of the viewers at the time Polaris would have been very low in the Northern Sky, and would easily have been recognized for what it was by well educated astronomers and astrologers, not to mention that it technically doesn’t “rise”, excepting seasonal changes in position. Others have postulated comets, supernova, and conjunctions. Others just take it as written.
