Historiographical Reassessment of the Dating of Christ's Birth and the Death of Herod the Great: Towards a Deconstruction of the Post-Keplerian Consensus

ENGLISH & SPANISH "with New Contributions" Based on research published in:The Star that Revealed the King: Astronomical, Prophetic and Historical Synchrony ofChrist’s Birth (August 20-21, 1 BC) AbstractThe dating of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, traditionally placed between 6 and 4 BC ac-cording to modern academic consensus, is based on a layered historiographical constructthat critically depends on Johannes Kepler’s (1606) astronomical hypothesis of the tripleJupiter-Saturn conjunction of 7 BC as the Star of Bethlehem. This document critiquesthis consensus, showing its internal weaknesses—particularly the problematic identifi-cation of the March 13, 4 BC eclipse as the one referred to by Flavius Josephus—andproposes an alternative reconstruction based on multi-source synchronies. This recon-struction places Christ’s birth on August 20-21, 1 BC (Jupiter-Venus conjunction inVirgo), the death of Herod the Great in early AD 1 (after the December 29, 1 BCeclipse), and vindicates the chronology of Dionysius Exiguus as essentially correct withinthe documentary framework of his time. It concludes with a call for an interdisciplinaryreevaluation of primary sources and for the deconstruction of the still-dominant post-Keplerian paradigm.