INTRODUCTION The date of birth of Jesus Christ is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources but most biblical scholars assume a year of birth between 6 and 4 BC. They say that historical evidence is too incomplete to allow a definitive dating, but the year is estimated so far through three different approaches: 1) analyzing references to known historical events mentioned in the nativity accounts in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, 2) working backward from the estimation of the start of th...