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The Census of Quirinius was a census of the Roman province of Judaea taken in 6 CE, upon its formation, by the governor of Roman Syria, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius. The census triggered a revolt of Jewish extremists (called Zealots ) led by Judas of Galilee .
Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21), also translated as Cyrenius, [1] was a Roman aristocrat. After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus from the tetrarchy of Judea in AD 6, Quirinius was appointed legate governor of Syria, to which the province of Judaea had been added for the purpose of a census. [2]
Publius Sulpicius Quirinius: Governor of Syria: Conducted a census while governing Syria as reported by Luke and Josephus, [151] and confirmed by a tomb inscription of one Quintus Aemilius Secundus, who had served under him. [152] He is mentioned by Josephus in the Antiquities and by Tacitus in the Annals. Lk. 2:2: Salome: Herodian princess
Judas of Galilee, or Judas of Gamala, was a Jewish leader who led resistance to the census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius in the Judaea Province in 6 CE. [1] He encouraged Jews not to register, and those that did were targeted by his followers. [2]
Articles related to the Census of Quirinius, a census of Judea taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria, upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in 6 CE. The Gospel of Luke uses it as the narrative means to establish the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem ( Luke 2 , Luke 2:1–5 ), but the Gospel of Matthew places the birth ...
Flavius Josephus [a] (/ d ... Quirinius's census and the Zealots, and such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, ...
Josephus placed Judas at the Census of Quirinius of the year 6 and Theudas under the procurator Fadus [71] in 44–46. Assuming Acts refers to the same Theudas as Josephus, two problems emerge. First, the order of Judas and Theudas is reversed in Acts 5. Second, Theudas's movement may come after the time when Gamaliel is speaking.
Senator Quirinius appointed Legate of the Roman province of Syria (to which Judea had been "added" according to Josephus [31] though Ben-Sasson claims it was a "satellite of Syria" and not "legally part of Syria" [32]) carries out a tax census of both Syria and Judea known as the Census of Quirinius.