Contradictions in the Infancy stories?

Understanding what literary practice someone is using when writing can affect how we understand the text, and make "contradictions" disappear. Seeing as you will more than likely run into similar claims that those who wrote Miller ran into, either here on Gaia or elsewhere I thought this link could help shed some light on the issue.

Excerpt;
our approach here will be to:

· Examine how closely the actual biblical text conforms to the assertions above (e.g. “flatly contradict”)

· See how ‘conservative’ commentators understand the textual data (relative to the ‘problem’ here)

· Examine how the ancient literary world would have judged this—what were the conventional and/or preferred ways of delivering historical narrative

· Examine the NT writers in light of these ancient literary practices

· Do a ‘Reality check’ using the first major anti-Christian writers