The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth runs 7.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Pruden (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.4 hours, it runs longer than 76% of the 13,085 Christianity audiobooks in our catalog.
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John Pruden narrates 218 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,341 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Christianity shelf
1,762 Christianity audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth is an audiobook by John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by John Pruden, released May 24, 2011, on the Christianity and Bibles & Biblical Studies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Pruden
- Released
- May 24, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Christianity, Bibles & Biblical Studies
- ISBN
- 9780062100832
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth as an audiobook?
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
Is The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth?
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth is narrated by John Pruden.