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Archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

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Re: Archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

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ahazred8ta wrote: post #10
gotoeleven wrote: post #7

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It became popular among some English protestants who didn't like to use Anno Domini because it's Latin.

I think it's also popular among some Jewish people, because they're OK with giving dates in terms of Jesus but they don't believe he was Christ/the Messiah.

Re: Archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

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ahazred8ta wrote: post #10
gotoeleven wrote: post #7

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It became popular among some English protestants who didn't like to use Anno Domini because it's Latin.

It is apparently fairly common to use by Jewish scholars too, though I can’t couch for that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

Re: Archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

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Post by francisofascii »

pdonis wrote: post #14
gotoeleven wrote: post #7

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> it will happen to coincide with the birth of ... Jesus Christ. More precisely, it will happen to coincide with what somebody incorrectly calculated to be the birth of Jesus Christ, but which we now know wasn't.

Which is now calculated to be between 6 BC and 4 BC.
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