Article Title

New Evidence for Date of Christ's Birth

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Keywords

Jesus Christ, birth, Herod, lunar eclipse, ancient Bible dates

Abstract

Between the birth of Christ and the death of Herod there was a lunar eclipse. Attempts to date Christ's birth have involved trying to establish the date of this eclipse. For many years it has been believed that the eclipse occurred on March 13, 4 B.C., which would place Christ's birth in either 5 or 6 B.C.

Recommended Citation

(1991) "New Evidence for Date of Christ's Birth," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 11: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol11/iss1/8