Death at Halmyris: Two Christian Martyrs at a Roman Outpost on the Danube

Archaeology Odyssey ^ | Nov/Dec 2004 | Mihail Zahariade and Myrna K. Phelps

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In 2001 our team, which had been excavating Halmyris for 20 years, made an extraordinary discovery: a fourth-century C.E. basilica containing the bones of two Christian martyrs previously known only from literary sources. If Halmyris had long been recognized for its role in Roman military history, now it had instant appeal to students of Christianity as well.

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When is CE? Is it the CE for Moslems, Chinese, Hebrews? Or is is A.D. so that we have a time reference point? Or is this a Religios bias or bigotry on the part of the writer?

[blam]

"Or is this a Religios bias or bigotry on the part of the writer?"

Yes.

[SunkenCiv]

CE is short for "Christian Era" and BCE is short for "Before Christian Era". Imagine for a moment that you're someone who is bothered by AD and BC, but not by BCE and CE... no, I can't imagine that either. :')

As someone around here pointed out recently, either way the starting point is Christ, so I fail to see who's getting fooled. :') I will use AD and BC for the duration. (':

[Moonmad27]

CE is Common Era (not Christian Era), which is a meaningless term. It still dates time to the birth of Christ, which is what those scholars want to avoid.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, that's right. :')

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

I thank you for the enlightenment, but I still feel the "No Under God" folks think it is Common Era. If we continue to call it Christian Era, they will go back to the usual delineation, BC & AD, it save ink and keystrokes.

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