Bible Wrong? Jesus was born years earlier than thought, says
Pope 2012 11 23 By Nick Squires | Telegraph.co.uk The entire
Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has
declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several
years earlier than commonly believed. The ’mistake’ was made by
a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English
Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book
’Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives’, published on
Wednesday. "The calculation of the beginning of our calendar –
based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who
made a mistake in his calculations by several years," the Pope
writes in the book, which went on sale around the world with an
initial print run of a million copies. "The actual date of
Jesus’s birth was several years before." The assertion that the
Christian calendar is based on a false premise is not new – many
historians believe that Christ was born sometime between 7BC and
2BC. But the fact that