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 :John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew, Doubleday, 1991-, vol. 1:407  
 ::""Jesus of Nazareth was born-most likely in Nazareth, not Bethlehem-ca. 7 or 6 B.C., a few years before the death of King Herod the Great (4 B.C.) ... He was dead by the evening of Friday, April 7, 30. He was about thirty-six years old."" 
 :p. 406 
 ::""We have seen that it is likely that Jesus began his ministry in A.D. 28 and died on Friday, April 7, 20. 
 :p. 229 
 ::""During the reign of King Herod the Great (and if Matthew is to be believed, toward the end of his reign, therefore somewhere between 7-4 B.C.), a Jew named Yeshia (=Jesus) was born, perhaps in Bethlehem of Judea but more likely in Nazareth of Galilee-at any rate, in a small town somewhere within the confines of Herod's kingdom."" 
 :p.375 
 ::'This helps set vague limits for Jesus' lifea as a whole: he was not born after 4 B.C., his ministry took place around the late twenties or early thirties A.D., and he was crucified somewhere between A.D. 28 and 33."