How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?

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The fictional census of Quirinius is a whole different ball game. Taxing all the empire would be a vast undertaking.

Moreover in the Res Gestae Divi Augustus the Imperator himself tells us of his activity in the field of taking the lustrum (census.)

http://droitromain.upmf-grenoble.fr/Angl...t_engl.htm

8. In my fifth consulship [29 BC] I increased the number of patricians on the instructions of the people and the senate. 2 I revised the roll of the senate three times. In my sixth consulship with Marcus Agrippa as colleague [28 BC], I carried out a census of the people, and I performed a lustrum after a lapse of forty-two years ; at that lustrum 4,063,000 Roman citizens were registered. 3 Then a second time I performed a lustrum with consular imperium and without a colleague, in the consulship of Gaius Censorinus and Gaius Asinius [8 BC] ; at that lustrum 4,233,000 citizens were registered. 4 Thirdly I performed a lustrum with consular imperium, with Tiberius Caesar, my son, as colleague, in the consulship of Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Appuleius [AD 14] ; at that lustrum 4,957,000 citizens were registered.

So, 3 lustra, in 28 BC, 8 BC and 14 AD but, the intent was to determine the number of Roman citizens not the number of Judaean peasants and certainly not for taxation. Direct taxation of Roman citizens in Italy had ended in the 2d century BC anyway. What P. Sulpicius Quirinius was doing coincided with the Jews petition to rid themselves of Archelaus and become a Roman praefecture, which petition Augustus granted. It amounted to taking stock of the newly annexed territory. It should be noted that this issue was so highly prized that Augustus doesn't even mention it in the Res Gestae although he does mention contacts with various barbarian tribes and other peoples.

Lastly, on a personal note, I am always amused by the notation of Sextus Pompey as consul in AD 14. This must have been the grandson of Pompey Magnus who fought Julius Caesar in the Civil War thus demonstrating that the Romans did not subscribe to the notion that the sins of the father were passed on to the sons.