tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153897996257110252.post3548514113397941633..comments2023-03-30T07:06:21.385-07:00Comments on The Good Heart: Sadness For the ChildrenHarry Allagreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602579654460463057noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153897996257110252.post-81098354495997441662011-12-31T11:37:48.747-08:002011-12-31T11:37:48.747-08:00An anthropologist friend once told me that he figu...An anthropologist friend once told me that he figured that in the 1st century, Bethlehem would have had at most 30 resident families. He made an informed guess that no more than half of them would have a child two years old and under (i.e., 15) and removing half of those as female, that leaves something like 7 or 8 baby boys killed by Herod's men— not the piles of corpses one sees in the classical paintings of the scene. That doesn't make it "good", of course, but it seems less of a wholesale slaughter than we might think.John-Julian, OJNnoreply@blogger.com