More Bollox TalkQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier
Did you not go to church or Sunday School
It was for a census. The census played a crucial role in the administration of the peoples of an expanding Roman Empire, and was used to determine taxes.
“ a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child."
Wonder if they believed the numbers...
Theologians have also suggested that Jesus was born in the spring, based on the biblical narrative that shepherds were watching over their flocks in the fields on the night of Jesus' birth — something they would have done in the spring, not the winter.
