Tauraron Betlehem

Mattiyu kaɗai ne ya ba da labarin tauraron. Masana (magi) daga gabas suka zo Urushalima suna tambaya game da sabon haifaffen sarkin Yahudawa: “mun ga tauraronsa a gabas” (Mattiyu 2:2) — kalmomin da suke iya nufin “a fitowarsa” kuma. Hiridus ya gano “daidai lokacin da tauraron ya bayyana” (Mattiyu 2:7), a hanyar zuwa Betlehem kuma “tauraron da suka gani a gabas kuwa yana tafe a gabansu, sai da ya kai inda yaron yake” (Mattiyu 2:9). Masanin tarihin Hellenawa Herodotus ya kwatanta magi a matsayin rukunin firistoci na Mediya da Farisa, waɗanda ake tuntuɓa game da mafarkai da taurari.

Hiridus ya mutu kimanin 4 K.H., bisa ga labarin Josephus, saboda haka masanan taurari suna dubawa ’yan shekaru kafin haka. A shekarun 1600, Johannes Kepler ya nuna haɗuwar Jupiter da Saturn a ƙungiyar taurari ta Pisces a 7 K.H., sau uku a wannan shekara. Wasu suna ba da shawarar tauraro mai wutsiya (comet) ko sabon tauraro (nova): rubuce-rubucen Sin sun ba da labarin “tauraro mai tsintsiya” da aka gani kimanin kwana saba’in a 5 K.H. Tauraro mai wutsiya na Halley, da aka gani a 12 K.H., ya yi kamar ya riga lokacin da yawa. Bisa ga wani ra’ayi, tauraron abu ne na halitta da Masanan suka ɗauka alama ce; bisa ga wani kuma, abin al’ajabi ne da ilimin taurari ba zai iya bayyana shi ba.