Tacky,
Josephus doesn't say anything about "jesus" being born. Even the people who forged the TF never bothered with that.
"Luke" was clearly written long after the events of first century Judaea had been forgotten. The Roman prefecture over Judaea lasted for a short period of 35 years, from 6 to 41 when Caligula appointed his boyhood friend, Herod Agrippa, to be king. Caligula and Claudius followed a policy of expanding Herod Agrippa's kingdom until it equaled Herod the Great's at his death in 4 BC.
Thus whatever 3d rate "historian" wrote Luke invented all sorts of plot devices to get his boy born in Nazareth. He had clearly forgotten the early first century partitioning of Herod's kingdom when he has "Joseph" travel from "Nazareth" ( which in all likelihood did not even exist at the time ) in Galilee ( ruled by Herod Antipas ) to Bethlehem in Judaea (under the auspices of Coponius, the newly installed Prefect.) I think this makes "Luke" a mid 2d century writing not to mention that most of it first appears as Marcion's Gospel of the Lord. But of course Marcion was a heretic so all of that has to be dismissed, right.
Luke, like "Matthew" is a fanfic. An expansion by later authors of the basic story written by "Mark" and which was designed to fill in various plot holes that Mark did not bother with. It is a fantasy of faith and any history in it is purely accidental and largely wrong.
Josephus doesn't say anything about "jesus" being born. Even the people who forged the TF never bothered with that.
"Luke" was clearly written long after the events of first century Judaea had been forgotten. The Roman prefecture over Judaea lasted for a short period of 35 years, from 6 to 41 when Caligula appointed his boyhood friend, Herod Agrippa, to be king. Caligula and Claudius followed a policy of expanding Herod Agrippa's kingdom until it equaled Herod the Great's at his death in 4 BC.
Thus whatever 3d rate "historian" wrote Luke invented all sorts of plot devices to get his boy born in Nazareth. He had clearly forgotten the early first century partitioning of Herod's kingdom when he has "Joseph" travel from "Nazareth" ( which in all likelihood did not even exist at the time ) in Galilee ( ruled by Herod Antipas ) to Bethlehem in Judaea (under the auspices of Coponius, the newly installed Prefect.) I think this makes "Luke" a mid 2d century writing not to mention that most of it first appears as Marcion's Gospel of the Lord. But of course Marcion was a heretic so all of that has to be dismissed, right.
Luke, like "Matthew" is a fanfic. An expansion by later authors of the basic story written by "Mark" and which was designed to fill in various plot holes that Mark did not bother with. It is a fantasy of faith and any history in it is purely accidental and largely wrong.
