The gospels cannot even agree among THEMSELVES as to what happened. Weren’t they written decades after the fact, anyway?
Yes, that’s true. The Gospels do disagree with each other about details of the events and they were written decades after the fact. But it’s still very difficult to believe that they would make a mistake of 200 years or so regarding who was ruling over Eretz Yisroel at the time.
It’s akin to someone today writing a story about the Depression and stating that the president at the time was John Adams. You may not know that Herbert Hoover was the president, but you certainly aren’t going to pick a president from 200 years earlier. Likewise, even if the authors of the Christian Bible got the identification of whoever ruled EY at the time wrong, it’s unlikely they’d pick someone who was off by 200 or so years.
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