This unique reference work gathers into one handy volume the key extrabiblical texts that provide the necessary background for passages in the Gospels, along with introductory comments by the editors.
Jesus’ Dates
By: Darrell L. Bock
The Dating of Jesus’ Life
Dating in the Ancient World.
Josephus, Ant 15.380
Josephus, Ant 16.136
Year of Jesus’ Birth.
Josephus, Ant 17. 342-44; 17.354; 18.1-10.
Josephus, Ant 15.62-87
Josephus, Ant 15.161-73, 15.218-31, Ant 17.180-81, 88-92
Start and Length of Ministry.
Velleius Paterculus 2.121
Suetonius, Tiberius 21
1 Macc 1:20
1 Macc 4:52
A Complicating Factor.
Josephus, Ant 15.421
Josephus, War 1.401
Josephus, Ant 15.380
The Year of Jesus’ Death.
Josephus, Ant 18.106; 224; War 2.180
Josephus, Ag. Appian (Civil War 2.149),
Plutarch (Caesar 62-67),
Suetonius (Caesar 81.2; Augustus 100.2)
Dio Cassius 106.3
Philo, Leg 159-61
Josephus, Ant 15.55-59; War 2.169-74
Josephus, Ant 18.60-62; War 2.175-77
Philo, Leg 299-305
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