Important Dates in the Lives of Jesus and Mary 

    I expect that the ideas in this book will, at first, be widely rejected by scholars. However, the truth is like a 

city on a hill it cannot be kept hidden. There must be at least a few present day scholars who are sincerely 

dedicated to truth. These will examine and eventually accept the conclusions of this book. And the next new 

generation of students and scholars of the Bible and of Biblical chronology will be more likely to accept the 

new ideas in this book. I expect that eventually the conclusions of this book will be generally accepted, both by 

the ordinary Christian and the Biblical scholar. I think it will take at least a generation for such acceptance to 

occur. 

    This book of Biblical chronology was written with faith in God and for those who have faith in God. The 

Bible is a book of faith, inspired by God, written down in faith, transmitted in faith, preserved in faith, and 

lived out in the lives of countless faithful souls. Anyone who claims that faith should be absent from Biblical 

research is an idiot. 

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