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Dec 28, 2017 15:43:35 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:44:29 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:44:38 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:44:49 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:44:57 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:45:06 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:54:35 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:54:45 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:55:16 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2017 15:55:16 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:55:26 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:57:20 GMT -5
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Dec 28, 2017 15:58:03 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2017 15:58:03 GMT -5
WHAT YEAR DID HEROD THE GREAT DIE? Josephus says that Herod died 37 years from the time that he was appointed king by the Roman Senate, 34 years after his reign began in Jerusalem and 27 years after the capture of the city by Pompey , which was in 63 B.C.E. (compare Antiquities, Book 14, chapter 16, (p1, 4) ; Antiquities, Book XVII, chap. VIII, par. 1). This would would make the date of Herod’s taking the city of Jerusalem 34 BCE and place his death in the year 2 or perhaps 1 B.C.E if those years are counted in each case according to the regnal year (complete years -Nisan to Nisan as was Josephus custom). This would easily allow for Jesus’ birth to fall in 2 B.C*.
Further reading strangenotions.com/jesus-birth-and-when-herod-the-great-really-died/
*It would not be necessary for Jesus to be two years old when the killing of the children occurred; he could even have been less than a year old, for Herod calculated from the time that the star appeared to the astrologers while they were in the east. (Mt 2:1, 2, 7-9) This may well have been a period of some months, for if the astrologers came from the age-old center of astrology, Babylon or Mesopotamia, as is likely the case.
THE LUNAR ECLIPS OF 4 BCE The proposing of Herod's death in 4 BCE is largely based on Josephus’ testimony that shortly before his death Herod ordered the burning alive of two Jewish seditionists and that on the night they were executed there was an eclipse of the moon(. (Antiquities of the Jews, Book XVII, chap. VI, par. 4). It is calculated that there was such an eclipse March 13, 4 B.C. However, a lunar eclipse is not a sufficient date by which to locate the year of a certain event, because in any year there usually are two eclipse seasons and in many years two eclipses of the moon may be seen in a certain part of the earth. In fact, while only one partial eclipse is recorded for 4 B.C., three are given for 1 B.C., and they complete ones. So, on the basis of the eclipse, 1 B.C. would have a stronger claim than 4 BC.
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Dec 29, 2017 7:17:17 GMT -5
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