The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era. By Alden A. Mosshammer
It is a commonplace even of popular historical writing that the Christian (or, in modern parlance, Common) era was invented by Dionysius Exiguus in the first half of the sixth century, but that, in placing the birth of Jesus in the year that we now call 1 bc (or ad 1, since either interpretation of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 307-308 |
| Review of: | The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | It is a commonplace even of popular historical writing that the Christian (or, in modern parlance, Common) era was invented by Dionysius Exiguus in the first half of the sixth century, but that, in placing the birth of Jesus in the year that we now call 1 bc (or ad 1, since either interpretation of his intentions is possible), Dionysius erred by several years from the true date. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp004 |