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Dating the Birth of Jesus and the 'first Christmas' with a Herodian Coin

December 20, 2010

Anno domini. Today we use the system devised by the sixth-century monk, Dionysius Exiguus, as a way of synchronising events, and associate its origin with the nativity of Jesus and the 'first Christmas'. But did Dionysius get his dates right? Professor Ke