Reply #12: One problem: the "Massacre of the Innocents" has no historical support whatsoever. [View All]

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Regarding the Massacre of the Innocents, although Herod was certainly guilty of many brutal acts, including the killing of his wife and two of his sons, no other known source from the period makes any reference to such a massacre. Since Bethlehem was a small village, the number of male children under the age of 2, would probably not exceed 20. This may be the reason for the lack of other sources for this history, although Herod's order in Matthew 2:16 includes those children in Bethlehem's vicinity making the massacre larger numerically and geographically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

You'd think some historian would have referenced such an event -- but like with so many other things, all we have to go on is the words of one questionable fable in the Bible.