Handbook of Biblical Chronology (Revised Edition) (Biblia.com)

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Have you been skipping over references to time in the Bible because they seem too confusing? Professor Jack Finegan’s Handbook of Biblical Chronology clarifies those ancient systems of time reckoning and the biblical passages that use them. Part 1, Principles of Chronology in the Ancient World, describes the origins of basic units of time and surveys the calendars used in the Ancient Near East...

549. The foregoing discussion was based on the hypothesis that Herod died in 4 B.C. On that basis the birth of Jesus two years or less before would have been in 6 or 5 B.C. (§510). Also, it would be possible to think of the triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the “new star” (nova), all of 7 B.C., and the comet or nova of 5 B.C. (§§538–539) in connection with the biblical star of Bethlehem (§§538f.). If, however, we remember that the prevailing tradition represented by the majority of early

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