critics will have to blame the original writer of the microletters   I am confident of my reading. (In many places 

on this text Greek is mixed with Latin, and Phoenician, as well   particularly the sign for year   looks like a 

stretched out  K ).  This quote is from an e mail sent to the author, from E. Jerry Vardaman, dated May 18, 

2000. 

229

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.1ff. 

230

 Dio, Roman History, 54.28.2. 

231

 E. Jerry Vardaman,  The Birth of Christ in the Light of Chronological Research,  Lecture 1, Chronology and 

Early Church History in the New Testament, (Seminar given at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary, June of 

1998), taken from lecture notes sent to the author by Jerry Vardaman in February of 1999, p. 9, 11. 

232

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 523, p. 305. 

233

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.1. 

234

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 522, p. 304, see also Table 147. 

235

 Dio, Roman History, 54.28.2. Publius Sulpicius Quirinius is here called simply  Publius Sulpicius.  

236

 Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 61 64. 

237

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 522, p. 304 305. 

238

 Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 62 63. 

239

 Nikos Kokkinos,  Crucifixion in 

A.D.

 36,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 140 141. 

240

 Nikos Kokkinos,  The Relative Chronology of the Nativity in Tertullian,   Chronos, Kairos, Christos II, p. 

127. 

241

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 512, p. 298. See also Ernest L. Martin,   The 

Nativity and Herod's Death,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 85 92. John Pratt proposes that Herod may have died 

in early 

A.D.

 1, but this is the latest date argued for the death of Herod. John P. Pratt, Yet Another Eclipse for 

Herod, The Griffith Observatory Home Page, , reprinted 

from the Planetarian, vol. 19, no. 4, (International Planetarium Society, 1990), pp. 8 14. 

242

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 525, p. 306. 

243

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 17.41  42. 

244

 Justin Martyr,  Apology 1.34, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, (Wheaton, Illinois: Wheaton College, 

1998), CD ROM, . 

245

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.1 3; The Wars of the Jews, 7.253, 2.118. 

246

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 523, p. 304. 

247

 Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 62 63. 

248

 Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 63. 

249

 90% of all births occur within a four week period of time, from 266 days after conception plus or minus 2 

weeks. The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition, (Whitehouse Station, N.J.: Merck 

Research Lab, 1997), p. 1139. Other medical sources agree. 

250

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, p. 62 63. 

251

 Emmerich, The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations , Vol. 1, p.180. 

252

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 567, p. 327. 

253

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 225 226 and table 57, p. 118 122. Finegan cites 

Zuckermann, Sabbatical Cycle and Jubilee, p. 60 64; Blosser, Jesus and the Jubilee, p. 113; Ben Zion Wacholder, 

Essays, p. 2 3. 

254

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 4.209. 

255

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 241, p. 133; see also: Josephus, The Antiquities 

of the Jews, 7.365. 

256

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 241, p. 133. 

257

 In those days, many people would arrive several days before the beginning of a major feast, such as 

Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles. The Day of Atonement occurs on Tishri 10 and the Feast of Tabernacles 

begins on Tishri 15 (i.e. on Tishri 14 at sunset). Thus, the huge crowd which would gather for the Feast of 

Tabernacles would also be largely present a few days earlier for the most holy day of the year, the Day of 

Atonement. 

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