Any source that uses the idiotic “BCE” date label is suspect.
So most Archaelogists in the World are idiots? The designation of AD and BC was first ceated by a Christian monk named Dionysius Exiguus in 525 AD, who was trying to formalize the date for designated Easter. The Roman Calendar is a Solar Calendar, while most Middle Eastern Calendars were Lunar Calendars, and most folks did not recognize the Roman Calendar. Most observed their Holy days by it, not the Roman. Calendar. It was imposed forcefully by the Romans on all who it conquered. The AD and BC Roman Calendar was Venerable Bede popularized the “AD” system in his “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” completed in 731 AD. Bede used the Latin “ante... incarnationem Dominicam” (in the year before the incarnation of the Lord) to refer to years prior to AD 1, Which cemented the time from the birth of Christo. If an Archaelogist is trying to recon time, he does so from the current date backwards, since so many cultures vary in their Calendars. Also, the Catholic Church arbitrarily labed the birth, and in their own Encyclopedia admit that the date is designated. They also mention that the date is four years off.
It’s what they’ve got to do to keep the grant money flowing.
“Any source that uses the idiotic “BCE” date label is suspect.”
Agreed.
“Any source that uses the idiotic ‘BCE’ date label is suspect.”
That was my first thought.