 These texts include interviews with the shepherds, Gamaliel's interview with Joseph and Mary, Caiaphas's reports to the Sanhedrin, "Eli's story of the Magi", Herod Antipater's defense before the Roman Senate for the Massacre of the Innocents, and Herod Antipas's defense before the Senate—all with the claim that they were copied from ancient manuscripts and translated into English.The texts are otherwise unknown to scholarship, and the volume contains various inconsistencies.It quotes an unknown Greek philosopher, "Meeleesen," and includes references to Josephus that do not exist.