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Astronomical phenomena march 192112/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Almost all the early Christian Fathers of whom we have record said Christ’s birth was in either 3 or 2 B.C. Epiphanius and the early Syrian chronological work called the Chronicon Edessenum indicate it was 2 B.C. This same year was accepted by Hippolytus of Rome, Origen, the Chronicon Cyprianicum, Eusebius of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, Jerome, Hippolytus of Thebes, Photius Patriarch of Constantinople, the Greek historian Zonaras, and Bar Hebreaus, who quoted Syrian, Armenian, and Greek sources. The early Christian chronologist Julius Africanus said it was in the year from 3 to 2 B.C. ![]() Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Orosius, and Cassiodorus Senator said Christ’s birth was in a year we now recognize as 3 B.C. Virtually all early Christian historians and chronologers who lived from the second to the sixth centuries (and even later) put the birth of Christ after the eclipse of 4 B.C. AS early as the sixteenth century an eminent scholar, Scaliger, was decisive in stating that Herod’s death was connected with the 1 B.C. Filmer also showed reasons for thinking that the eclipse to which Josephus referred was not the one in 4 B.C. Filmer reviewed the historical data available from the period and suggested that Herod continued to live for some time after 4 B.C. In an essay in the October, 1966, Journal of Theological Studies, W. Some historical studies, however, have thrown doubt on the association of Herod’s death with that eclipse. And so the “Star of Bethlehem” has always been looked for prior to that date. Since the Bible makes it clear that Christ was born while Herod was still alive, this has appeared to many scholars as undeniable evidence that Christ was born before that eclipse in March, 4 B.C. Calculations have shown that a lunar eclipse occurred the night of March 12/13, 4 B.C. Josephus, a Jewish historian who lived in the first century A.D., recorded that Herod died shortly after an eclipse of the moon and before a Passover. ![]() Until recently, there seemed to be incontrovertible proof that Christ was born before March, 4 B.C. ![]()
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