See: Pope Benedict Disputes Jesus’ Date of Birth Pope Benedict’s book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
...the Gospel of Matthew claims that Jesus was born when Herod the Great ruled in Judea. However, given that Herod died in 4 B.C., Jesus must have been born earlier than Exiguus originally documented. (Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th century monk) ...the Gospel of Luke contends that the birth took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria <http://topics.time.com/syria/> in A.D. 6. Then there is the question of whether Christ was actually born on Dec. 25... > http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/22/pope-benedict-disputes-jesus-date-of-birth/ > > <http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/22/pope-benedict-disputes-jesus-date-of-birth/> Donna Y [email protected] > On Jun 4, 2018, at 5:14 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Donna wrote: > >> Dionysius invented the Anno Domini era about 525 C.E. >> ... >> He stated Jesus’ birth as 525 years ago without saying why > > Do you have a reference? This seems to be, at least, controversial; see, > > Anno Domini > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#History > > Thus Dionysius implied that Jesus' Incarnation occurred 525 years > earlier, > without stating the specific year during which his birth or conception > occurred. "However, nowhere in his exposition of his table does Dionysius > relate his epoch to any other dating system, whether consulate, Olympiad, > year of the world, or regnal year of Augustus; much less does he explain > or justify the underlying date."[17] > >> historians mostly set the date at 1 BCE or sometimes 1AD and some others > 4 BCE relative to other historic events. > > Reportedly, a long time ago, Kepler (yes, that Kepler) placed the death of > King Herod in 4 BC based on an account of Josephus (yes, that Josephus) > about a lunar eclipse occurring just before Herod's death. > > > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The first decade of the Julien calendar had as many years as most people >> have fingers on their to hands that they use to count. The years numbered >> in Roman Numerals: >> I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, >> Of course in those days they did not write IV for four or IX for nine—that >> came about after the printing press. >> >> Even without zero, decades have 10 years—count from 1 to 10 or 0 to 9. >> >> Roman numerals were additive before then and afterwards required adding >> and subtracting but did not need 0 to be a placeholder because each numeral >> had a value >> >> I 1 >> V 5 >> X 10 >> L 50 >> C 100 >> D 500 >> M 1000 >> >> The used conventions such as brackets or frames or bars to denote large >> multiples to express larger numbers. >> >> You don’t use 0 to denote numbers in Roman numerals—if there are no I or X >> they are not listed. >> >> The number 1732 would be denoted MDCCXXXII in Roman numerals >> >> C.E. 1 follows immediately after 1 B.C.E.—one year earlier than year one >> is denoted 1 BCE high is important hen calculating spans of time that cross >> from before to after year 1. A person born in 10 B.C.E. and died in C.E. >> 10, attained age of 19, not 20. >> >> >> Dionysius invented the Anno Domini era about 525 C.E.—many people were >> expecting the end of the world to occur 500 years after the birth of Christ >> In calculating a table of the dates of Easter --the new moon, was zero. >> Dionysius was the first known medieval Latin writer to use a precursor of >> the number zero using Roman for Null and Nil. He stated Jesus’ birth as 525 >> years ago without saying why—historians mostly set the date at 1 BCE or >> sometimes 1AD and some others 4 BCE relative to other historic events. >> >> >> Y2K as the reason for the 1999-2000 celebrations in anticipation of the >> end of the world as we know it thanks to sloppy date routines in much of >> the computer code. Two thousand one paled by comparison to Kubric’s Space >> Odyssey. >> >> >> >> Donna Y >> [email protected] >> >> >>> On Jun 1, 2018, at 10:44 AM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> the first decade of the modern era (A.D., C.E.) has only 9 years in its >>>> "decade"--1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (because there's no year 0). >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
