Timeline for How long had John the Baptist been preaching before Jesus started his public ministry?
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 17:17 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 25, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | PS pun intended =) | |
| Jun 25, 2022 at 20:17 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | @AndrewShanks I have looked at this argument - Newton himself suggested a similar possibility. In my video I acknowledge the assumptions I used. AD 34 would require an intercalation of the calendar that year which, while possible, was unnecessary (Although not a dispositive argument, we don't have evidence they intercalated that year). Humphreys & Waddington consider the possible impacts of cloud cover (see here) but ultimately conclude AD 33 is the clearest explanation. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 11:35 | comment | added | Andrew Shanks | Hi. In AD 34, the 15th Nisan was a Friday23rd April, and the previous month to Nisan (Adar) was 29 lunar days. If there had been cloud cover at the beginning of the month of Nisan then this would have created Friday, 23 April, 14th Nisan for AD 34... a possible match for the date of crucifixion. Have you considered this option? Best regards. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 8:53 | comment | added | Andrew Shanks | I must add this is a really great answer, with a lot of useful information. I'd give more than +1 if I could. Thanks. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 20:45 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 20, 2022 at 23:30 | history | edited | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 18:48 | history | edited | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified practices for reckoning when there's a co-regent
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 18:42 | history | edited | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 17:43 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | @SLM I appreciate your passion for a topic I find very interesting as well. I think we're talking apples & oranges though. You're looking at double-header coins, I'm looking at double-dated coins. I'll add some detail to my post later today | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 16:56 | comment | added | SLM | @HoldToTheRod see my edited answer for a double-headed coin showing the co-regency of Augustus and Tiberius. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 23:17 | comment | added | Andrew Shanks | @SLM - Before you can have a co-regency you must have a regency. Augustus vigorously avoided the title of emperor. And Tiberius vigorously refused to be seen as the new leader until several weeks after Augustus' death. If he had been co-regent then this refusal could not have happened.. the senate would not have needed to ask him, it would have been the case already that he was leader not just in practice but also in title. It follows there was no co-regency. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 22:39 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | @SLM the co-regency argument is certainly a common view--I offer a response to it here if you are interested. Whether there was a co-regency or not (possible, but debatable), none of the Roman historians dated Tiberius' reign that way, nor did any of the datable coins | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 17:34 | comment | added | SLM | Luke dates the 15th year of Tiberius beginning from his co-regency with Augustus in 12 CE. We know this for a few reasons not the least of which is Tertullian dating the same event of John's baptism at age 30 in Tiberius' 12th year, thus they align; and Luke's next mention of a co-priesthood of Annas and Caiphas (verse 2). See also sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/suet-tiberius-rolfe.asp | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 4:30 | history | answered | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |