It's ok. Provides some excellent historical and cultural insight in the opening chapters. However, about half way through the book becomes very wordy and redundant at times. You keep waiting for the 'big unveiling" of what he thinks the star was but it doesn't really come. He spends the last few chapters speculating on the influence of the "Q gospel" in the star narrative and rejects that Matthew wrote the gospel of Matthew. I started interested and finished disappointed.