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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (15118)	6/1/2001 8:44:58 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Just one small point on that post (I've bookmarked the link, BTW...): King Herod the Great died in 4 BCE, years before Publius Sulpicius Quirinius became governor of Syria. There was no universal census of the whole Empire under Caesar Augustus, only a local census in Judaea. This local census was indeed under the governorship of Quirinius, but it took place in 6 CE - ten years after Herod had died. According to this seemingly well-researched site, Herod's son was also called Herod: The apocryphal Gospel of the Twelve Apostles says that John came baptizing in the days of Herod, king of Judaea. Herod, king of Judaea must have meant Herod Archelaus, son of Herod the Great, who ruled Judaea from 4 BC until 6 AD as a minor king, an ethnarch. Mandaean tradition is similar. askwhy.co.uk Not an Xtian apology site, either - the page makes interesting reading, and possibly useful side-light onto the origins of some of the Jesus traditions (as opposed to the Christ Logos). Just been objective about our own case - I think it's stong enough to be fair... <g>