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Holidays What Is Frankincense? And where does it come from? Updated Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, at 10:21 AM ET
ON THE FRANKINCENSE COAST OF OMAN--As a child, I dutifully sang the lyrics to "We Three Kings" every holiday season. For anyone lacking a proper parochial school upbringing, these biblical Magi, guided by a star to Bethlehem from the East, brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the Baby Jesus. Like many children of the soybean fields where I was raised, I had seen gold, I pictured frankincense as something regal and perhaps jewellike, and I dismissed myrrh as a spelling mistake. To continue reading, click here. Jackie Spinner is a journalist based in the Middle East, where she is currently a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Oman. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post for 14 years and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is the author of Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq.Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate I've Got a Label for the New "No Label" Party: Dumb How Conservatives Are Using Tennis--Yes, Tennis--To Argue Against Gay Marriage Denial-of-Service Attacks Are a Legitimate Form of Civil Disobedience | Advertisement |
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