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The Life And Works Of Flavius Josephus

*** Attention: *** This is from the corrupt Greek Manuscript copy from 1540s onward publisher in Basel, which changed Phillip's death, the date from the 22nd year to the 20th year of Tiberius. "Philip, Herod’s ‘ brother, departed this life, in the twentieth year of the reign of Tiberius," page 1334 in PDF . " This calculation, from all Josephus’s Greek copies, is exactly right; for since Herod died about September, in the fourth year before the Christian era, and Tiberius began, as is well known, Aug. 19, A.D. 14, it is evident that the thirty-seventh year of Philip, reckoned from his father’s death, was the twentieth of Tiberius," page 2040 PDF This alteration has caused many scholars to point to a 4 BC death of Herod versus the 1 BC actual date, even though both had lunar eclipses on both 4 BC and 1 BC. The 1 BC was however the only total eclipse. Read more here. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mWnYvI5RdLMC&lpg=PR1&ots=OY86IXw-CX&dq=%22chronological+nativity+and+religious+studies+in+memory+of+ray+summers%22&pg=PA85&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22chronological%20nativity%20and%20religious%20studies%20in%20memory%20of%20ray%20summers%22&f=false The Life and Works of Flavius J

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