It's also commonly agreed that Luke's timing of Jesus's birth is wrong, because he put the birth at the time of the first census called by Caesar Augustus, which historians place at A.D. 6.

If his birth is taken into consideration, it leaves Jesus's birth in June. United Church of God specifically names June 13 to 17 as a likely time Jesus was born.

Some historians believe that Constantine chose to celebrate Jesus's birth near significant dates for pagan traditions to ...

As for the actual month and day of Jesus’s birth, there’s no general consensus. The most commonly believed theory estimates Christ’s birth to have been in the spring, based on the Bible’s ...

Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus’s birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem.

Jesus’s birth, that we celebrate again and again, tells a story of deep hope and ­wisdom for everyone. More than that, it serves as a reminder that the baby in a manger brought God right into ...

If Jesus’s visitors had been royalty, the Gospel writers would likely have included such a detail. Instead, Renaissance artworks depicting king-like figures at Jesus’s birth likely contributed ...

As for the actual month and day of Jesus’s birth, there’s no general consensus. Some estimate Christ’s birth to have been in the spring, based on the Bible’s mention of shepherds tending ...

In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. Over the past 160 years, The Atlantic has published the work of some of the ...