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To: bayourod
"66 CE?" " Whens'at?

CE = Common Era.

Seems that BC and AD are no longer used by religious scholars because their meanings are too religious.

5 posted on 08/17/2004 10:16:02 PM PDT by Noachian (Legislation without representation is tyranny)
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To: Noachian

I bristle at the use of CE and BCE instead of AD and BC. "Seems that BC and AD are no longer used by religious scholars because their meanings are too religious." It's a cute irony, but I, personally, find nothing ironic in the fact that a Hebrew University professor chooses not to refer to Anno Domini (The year of our Lord).


6 posted on 08/17/2004 10:19:56 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Noachian
"66 CE?" " Whens'at?

CE = Common Era.

Seems that BC and AD are no longer used by religious scholars because their meanings are too religious.


I may be speaking out of turn, but maybe he was questioning the year and not the designation. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Are AD and CE interchangle or is there a conversion needed. I always have thought the former.
26 posted on 08/19/2004 5:38:21 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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