Quote:Quinirias was governor of Syria twice, so the census could have happened in his first governor-ship.
Not possible. Nowhere in Roman history was a man governor of any province more than once. That isn't just a Josephus fact, that's an EVERY ROMAN HISTORIAN fact.
WHEEP, WHEEP, WHEEP, WHEEP! (That's the Special Pleading Alarm going off.) It goes something like this:
"BUT...IT'S JEE-ZUS...ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH JEE-ZUS. SO WHAT IF NO ONE EVER GOVERNED THE SAME PROVINCE TWICE. IT'S FOR JEE-ZUS. AND SO WHAT IF WHEN THE ROMANS CRUCIFIED SOMEONE THEY LEFT THE BODY ON THE CROSS TO ROT AS A WARNING. THIS WAS JEE-ZUS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. HE'S DIFFERENT!"