Quote:The only objection I've heard so far is that Luke's "King Herod" was actually a reference to Herod Archelaus, the ethenarch of Judea. Thus, Mary would have become pregnant around 6 CE.
Archelaus did not control Galilee or Perea. That was Antipas. The whole point of the Quirinius fuckup is that Archelaus was removed as ethnarch and Quirinius was supposed to figure out what he stole and what was left.
Then, of course, there is the obvious question of why Antipas, were it him, would order people to leave his country for a census in Coponius' brand new praefecture?
The whole thing is best explained by the idea that this shit was written by people far removed in time and space who had, at best, a limited recollection of the political situation in the first third of the first century AD.
In other words, the gospel writers didn't know shit from shinola.
