"When the angels appeared to shepherds ... [they] said to them, 'This will be a sign to you. You'll see a baby lying in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes,'" Sobel recounted, noting that he believes these shepherds weren't ordinary, everyday shepherds.

In fact, he said they were raising lambs that were to be offered as sacrifices in the temple, noting that these lambs needed to be without blemish.

So, these so-called "Levitical shepherds" would wrap up the lambs in swaddling clothes to protect them. This is, of course, noteworthy, as it shows that the swaddling would have been an important connection point for the shepherds.

"What did they see?" Sobel asked of the shepherds' arrival at the site of Jesus' birth. "A baby born in the same place that the Passover lambs were...

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