Endnote 8 – Why 2K?

The date of 3/2 B.C.E. was universally held by the early church fathers and has been embraced again by Ernest Martin, W.F. Filmer and others who place the death of Herod in 1 B.C.E. Their position has now been accepted by Jack Finegan in the latest revised edition of his Handbook of Biblical Chronology, pp. 291–301.