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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Quirinius (Man living at the time of the New Testament)
Luke names him once, for the census that takes Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, and the old spelling is Cyrenius. Josephus opens a book of his history with the same man arriving in Syria to take that kind of account.
Luke names him once, for the census that takes Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, and the old spelling is Cyrenius. Josephus opens a book of his history with the same man arriving in Syria to take that kind of account.
Named once, for the census that gets Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem (2:2): Cyrenius in the old spelling. Josephus opens the very next book of his own history with the same man's arrival in Syria to do exactly that job: take an account of the province's substance for Rome.
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- Luke 2:2
