When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
Thus unlike what is generally stated – even from learned pulpits –
Bible clearly indicates the date of birth of Jesus in terms of the Hebrew
Calendar – in terms of both the Civil and the Religious Calendar.
Vision of Zachariah could not have been on any other day than the Day
of Atonement and the birth of Jesus 430 or so days after that. In any
given year if we follow the Hebrew Calendar this falls in our modern
calendar rendering in December/ January period. Calendars have
always in modification and differed from culture to culture that it will
be impossible and meaningless to state a day and date.
The Orthodox Churches continues to follow the older Julian calendar,
according to which Christmas falls on Jan. 7. which is 13 days ahead of
the Gregorian Calendar.
Hippolytus (170–236) gave the date of Jesus’ birth as December 25
which must have been a long cherished tradition, which was taken up
by Dionysius.who really remade the calendar for the churches.
Dionysius’ argument went as follows:
His contemporaries claimed that God created the earth on March 25.
Therefore Jesus must have been conceived on March 25.
This meant that he must have been born nine months later—
December 25.
When the calendar system of Anno Domini was first introduced by
Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the new
year to March 25, since according to Christian theology, the era of
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