CANDIDA MOSS

(Candida R. Moss)


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Candida Moss

According to the Gospel of Luke, shepherds were watching their flocks at night at the time Jesus was born. This detail -- the only clue in the Gospels about the timing of the birth [of Jesus Christ] -- suggests that Jesus' birthday was not in the winter, as shepherds would not have been watching their flocks only during the lambing season in the spring. In the colder months the sheep probably would have been corralled.
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Not only was the month of Christ's birth propably erroneous, but the year certainly was. See Quotation 644128. The reason shepherds watch flocks of sheep at night during the lambing season is that the newborn lambs are prey to foxes and other animals what would not attack a full grown sheep.

Candida Moss

Pope Julius set the date for Christmas in the 4th Century... The real reasopn fpr the selection of December 25 seems to have been that it was exactly 9 months after March 25, the traditional date for Jesus' crucifixion ... As Christians developed the theological idea that Jesus was concieved and executed on the same date [of the year], they set the date of his birth 9 months later.
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Prior to that there were few celebrations of Christ's birth and there was no official date agreed upon. there is no Biblical support for the notion that Christ was conceoved and crucified on the same day of the year and it is not known how this ideo originated, but it was part of of 4th century Chritian belief. December 25 is by no means a histotical date woth amy accuracy. These is some evdence to suggest that Chrsit was not even born iin December.

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  • Born: November 26, 1978
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Religious Historian & Theologian
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Candida R. Moss is an English New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity, who is the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities, Moss specialises in the study of the New Testament and martyrdom in early Christianity.