The Septuagint has 10 fewer years from the Exodus to the founding of Solomons temple (as compared to the Masoretic Text). Where did they go?
• There are numerous instances where the biblical data does not match the testimony of Assyrian and Babylonian records, and for various reasons scholars have a high degree of confidence in those secular records. • Luke at 2:2 mentions that Jesus was born at the time of a census when one Quirinius was governor of Syria. We know from Roman records that P. Sulpicius Quirinius conducted an assessment in 6-7 C.E. [far too late to be Luke’s census] while governor of Syria; he was not governor during Herod’s reign. There have been various attempts to resolve this problem.
