So I have become aware of another solution to the Luke 2 Census issue thanks to this PDF.
THE CENSUS AND QUIRINIUS: LUKE 2:2 by Wayne Brinale
This answer is Section for starting on Page 7 of the PDF saying page 48 at the top.
I shall now Copy/Paste some form it.
Feldman, in his edition of Josephus, states that "Luke 2:2 can be vindicated only if we translate ... , This census was the first before that under the prefectureship of Quirinius in Syria.' The adjective prötos may mean "first" or "earlier," "former,"."First census" must be taken in its Hellenistic connotation as the first of two, and then we must expand the clause a little. "This census was before the census which Quirinius, governor of Syria, made."
I am personally annoyed on why so many think the well known Census of the Empire taken in 8 BC can't fit this even when they are not identifying it with AD 6. Is it just lack of a formal "Decree"?
Again Tertulian says Saturninus was Governor of Syria when Jesus was born without any acknowledgment of how Luke seemingly says someone else was Governor.
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