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The millenium has passed ...

Dec 08, 1997 04:44 PM
by Dr. A.M.Bain


In message <199712081909.OAA20095@leo.vsla.edu>, "K. Paul Johnson"
<pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu> writes
>> Are they not aware in America that the year 2000 already was in 1997?
>
>Beg pardon?  If you're talking about 2000 years after Jesus's
>birth, that'll be something like 2004 according to virtually
>unanimous consensus among scholars.

Err ... wrong way round. 2000 years after J's putative birth brings us
to 1996 ....... consensus is around 4 b.c.e. (before common era).

Hehehehehe

Alan [scholar]
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