IF BC is Before Christ & AD is after death, what is the period of life of Jesus called?

Answer 1

A.D. isn't "after death." It stands for anno domini, which means in the year of our lord.

Answer 2

As u know B.C. is before Christ. Now A.D. is anno domini and not after death.
Abbreviation for Anno Domini - Latin for The Year Of Our Lord - used in the Gregorian Calendar to refer to the current era. A date such as 1945 A.D. literally means 'the 1945th year of our lord', the lord in question being Jesus Christ, providing a religious context and clearly distinguishing the time from an earlier era, where B.C is used instead. The use of A.D. was popularised by Bede.
Modern historical research suggests the current A.D. date is actually wrong, as Jesus was born 4-7 years earlier than the year 1 date the Gregorian Calendar works from. However, in the modern age the actual meaning of A.D. is widely forgotten or misunderstood and the term simply signifies a different era from B.C.

So period of life of Jesus is also covered under A.D. years.

Answer 3

Bc Before Christ

Answer 4

AD doesn't mean "after death"--it means Anno Domini, which is Latin for "The Year of Our Lord." That means it would include the years Jesus was alive, if the calendar was right. As it is, it's probably not--the man who created it didn't take into account a zero point--he just went from 1 BC to 1 AD. Also, they think he may have misinterpreted which emporer was ruling when Jesus was born, so he was probably really born around 5 BC. In April or May, shepards graze their flocks by night (the only Biblical reference to when he was actually born). In late May of 5 BC, Jupitor, the King Star, appeared in the constellation the Persians associated with the Jews. The Three Wise men are shown early on wearing Persian hats, so they may have seen it, assumed a new King of the Jews had been born, and headed for Jerusalem.

Answer 5

BC is actually an abridged version of B.C.E. meaning Before Common Era, which is based around the supposed birthdate of Jesus. AD stands for Anno Domini, meaning in the year of the lord.

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Answer 6

Most historians and scholars now use two terms: BCE means "before the Christian era" and CE means "in the Christian era" -- or that period of history that began with the life and ministry of Jesus. Keep in mind that even then, it would be difficult to say that the person who was to become Jesus of Nazareth was born on such-and-such a date on such-and-such a year since the Calendar we use today wasn't developed and agreed upon until centuries after the fact (or after the life of Jesus.)
Hope this helps.

Answer 7

B.C. does mean before christ, but A.D. means Anno Domini, which means "In the year of our Lord". It refers to any time after the birth of Jesus. While this is still common use, more politically correct terms are being used to respect others beliefs. They are B.C.E. (before common era) and C.E. (common era), although it still uses the birth of Jesus as the dividing line for time, making it basically a semantical issue, not one of ideology/theology. These terms are used mostly in legal texts and documents, and most textboks.

Answer 8

BC is actually an abridged version of B.C.E. meaning Before Common Era, which is based around the supposed birthdate of Jesus. AD stands for Anno Domini, meaning in the year of the lord

Answer 9

"BC" was used for centuries to mean "Before Christ," meaning the years before the birth of Christ. "AD" was used to mean "Anno Domini," meaning after the year of his birth. This meant that for centuries, that one year during Christ's birth was not counted on any calendar (it was Year 0, neither BC nor AD).

These days, "BCE" is used for most academic purposes. It means "Before Common Era," which means a calendar system that was started 2,006 years ago. This means the system is not predicated on the life of a man (Jesus Christ) but rather, on some arbitrarily chosen benchmark year (chosen really because most of the Western world was using it). [It's just coincidence that BCE is so close to BC.]

Answer 10

AD means anno domino in the year of our lord, now CE is used meaning Current Era and BCE before current era

BCE and CE were used to replace the religious reference. It is used to coincide with the Gregorian calender, but still references the birth of Christ.

Answer 11

bc refers to all time before christ and from the point of his birth is then ad and it is not after death it is anno domini which is the year of our lord and it includes the time of his birth till the present until he comes again!