Joseph was still the dad though, right?
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If Herod really tried to kill the children in Bethlehem around Jesus’s birth, one speculative possibility is that he had impregnated Mary, rather than the conception being miraculous... Trying to prevent an heir I guess...
(Herod was about 68 and was too sick and impotent to have done this wholly unevidenced speculation. His bowels were in the process of premature decomposition. I can check the history if you like. It's a bit facile to accept the Biblical account of Herod's genocide, which gives wholly different reasons, while rejecting the same account on the point of Mary's innocence.)
Ah then instead his motivation could be speculated that one of his sons did it.
All the sons he didn't kill were busy in other regions than Judea at the time, sorry. His favorite at the moment was Antipater who was stuck in Rome a long time. Sounds very ad hoc and driven by a desire to find something from a distance that those on the scene didn't find. I respect that your sources of authority are not the same as the traditional grammaticohistorical method of archaeology, but it'd be better to test those sources than to put out the misbegotten conclusions first.
Is all good, i like speculating and seeing where it can go.... Cheers.