Home :: The Date of Christmas: In the Summer? 12/12/08
Gary, I agree dlb
Submitted by bock on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 17:37.

JRP:

As you note this is all educated guesswork.  The course of Abijah only gives us a range of possibiliites for the time frame of John the Baptist's birth depending on how quickly it marks the conception of John the Baptist and whether when we wish to place it is a part of a tradrtion that goes back to the first century and whether we actually know the orderof the families involved. All these are not givens, so the guesswork continues.

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