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[Image credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/written-art-monastery-church-4934081/ ] This essay won the inaugural WBGS Fuller Research Prize Competition in 2021 JOE MCHUGH When was Jesus born? At face value, this question seems like a simple one to answer. The day? the 25 th . The month? December. The year? Well, if the year now is AD 2021, then surely Jesus was born 2021 years ago. So, December 25 th , 2021 years ago, making that the year 0? However, the Anno Domini system of dating years we use in our calendar, the Gregorian calendar, does not include a year 0. Instead, it skips from 1BC to AD 1. The contemporary consensus on Jesus’ birth year is c.4BC. How can someone be born four years before their own birthday? This date bases itself on the historical figure in the Bible, King Herod, the Roman client King of Judea from 36-1BC. 1 In addition to ancient historians, astrological data about the presumed Star of Bethlehem in Mathew 2:1-2 also concludes c.4BC. The lunar occulta...