Original sentence: After Herod's death in 4 BCE, Judea and Samaria were combined into the Roman province of Palestina, ruled by the Jewish High Priest under the supervision of a Roman procurator.However, based on a lunar eclipse that Josephus reports shortly before the death of Herod the Great, the birth of Christ would have been some time before the year 4 BCE, probably 5 BCE or 6 BCE.The Common Era reckoning of years is a derivation of the Anno Domini system.The gospels mostly portray his last one to three years, particularly the last week before a death by crucifixion, which, based on some historical data mentioned, would have been about CE 29–33.Those gospels depict little of his early life, apart from stories surrounding his birth, which according to best estimates would have been about 6 BCE–4 BCE (both the Anno Domini system and the derived Common Era system of reckoning years have their origins in a faulty 6th Century attempt to establish his birth date)
Edited sentence: After Herod's death in 4 BC, Judea and Samaria were combined into the Roman province of Palestina, ruled by the Jewish High Priest under the supervision of a Roman procurator.However, based on a lunar eclipse that Josephus reports shortly before the death of Herod the Great, the birth of Christ would have been some time before the year 4 BC, probably 5 BC or 6 BC.The gospels mostly portray his last one to three years, particularly the last week before a death by crucifixion, which, based on some historical data mentioned, would have been about AD 29–33.Those gospels depict little of his early life, apart from stories surrounding his birth, which according to best estimates would have been about 6 BC–4 BC