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The arguments against the Lucan account were best summarised by Schürer and they deserve to be mentioned again at this point.
- History, except for the passage in Luke, knows nothing of a general census throughout the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus.
- A Roman census could not have obliged Joseph to travel to Bethlehem and for Mary to accompany him.
- A Roman census could not be carried out at all in Palestine during the time of Herod.
- Josephus knows nothing of a Roman census in Palestine at the time of Herod; on the contrary, he speaks of the census in AD 7 as something new and unheard of.
- A census held under Quirinius could not fall into the time of Herod, since during Herod’s lifetime Quirinius was never governor of Syria.
[My added emphasis]
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