Nit picking: AD (or A.D.) is an abbreviation for the Latin expression “Anno Domini”, which translates to “the Year of Our Lord”. Not “After death”.
“Nit picking: AD (or A.D.) is an abbreviation for the Latin expression “Anno Domini”, which translates to “the Year of Our Lord”. Not “After death”.”
Yes, I know. But, when I attended school in the sixties in what was then the buckle of the bible belt, it was Before Christ and After Death. I suspect this was ignorance on the part of the teachers. I learned the Latin after I graduated from high school.