(November 27, 2018 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: P. Sulpicius Quirinius was named Imperial Legate for the Province of Syria in 6 AD. He was never a "king."
I don't know what you are referring to in "Venice" which did not even exist in the first century but Josephus tells the story of how the Sanhedrin petitioned Augustus to become a Roman prefecture and pension off Archelaus who was apparently something of a dick. Quirinius, with an equestrian by the name of Coponius as Prefect, was assigned to evaluate the wealth of the newly-formed prefecture. There was never any worldwide census. Whatever clown wrote "luke" pulled that out of his ass.
Wouldn't it make sense for Rome to evaluate the tax potential of their newly acquired province and it was exaggerated to be a "worldwide" census? That's why I don't question that a census was conducted (though unlikely involving people reporting to their home town, a contrivance likely used to explain how Jesus was of Nazareth and yet born in Bethlehem) but an earlier Roman census of Judea seems unlikely since Rome didn't own that province yet.
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