(December 21, 2017 at 5:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Not true:
Quote:Census of Quirinius
The Census of Quirinius was a census of Judaea taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria, upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in 6 CE.[1] The author of the Gospel of Luke uses it as the narrative means to establish the birth of Jesus (Luke 2:1-5),[2] but Luke places the census within the reign of Herod the Great, who died 10 years earlier in 4 BCE.[3] No satisfactory explanation of the contradiction seems possible on the basis of present knowledge,[4] and most scholars think that the author of the gospel made a mistake.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius
It is clear the author of Matthew and the author of Luke had to build their respective nativity stories almost from scratch (through unverified reports) as prior written materials on the birth and childhood of Jesus seemed to have been lacking and/or nonexistent. It seems also they were not aware of each others works, hence the outright contradictory nativity stories.
