Date of the birth of Jesus

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/date-of-the-birth-of-jesus

Step 2 · Questions

1. 1. What is the prevailing scholarly estimate (year)?

2. 2. What is the primary chronological anchor?

3. 3. When was Jesus born?

4. 4. Why do we not know the exact date of Jesus' birth?

Step 3 · Words to know

Write what each word means, using the article.

• Canonical Gospels

• Historiographical

• Inferential Reconstruction

Step 4 · Two facts in your own words

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.