Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies February, 2026

Abstract:

This paper establishes the conjunction of three independent natural phenomena - the total solar eclipse of 24 November 29 AD, the major earthquake documented in Bithynia/Nicaea, and a contemporaneous seismic event detected in Dead Sea sediment cores - as the historically and geophysically verifiable foundation of the primitive Christian Evangelion. This unified event, the "Eclipse-Seismic Theophany," aligns precisely with the gospel's record of Jesus's descent into Capernaum in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar. Building upon the forensic model of the Theophanic Replacement Protocol (TRP) (Mitchell, 2025), this study performs a critical re-analysis of the 2nd-century historian Phlegon of Tralles's account and integrates recent geological data from the Dead Sea Transform (Williams et al., 2012).

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February 2026