If before Jesus was born was called B.C. and the time after he died was A.D., what was his life period called?

Question

I believe Jesus died at the age of 33...what were those 33 years called?

Answer 1

See: http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q4_ad_bc_ce.html

"The meaning of AD is Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth."

Thus, your assertion about "died" seems incorrect - there was no time between B.C. and A.D.

Answer 2

A.D. is the abbreviation for anno domini, Latin for the "Year of our Lord" and is calculated from the (supposed) year of Christ's birth. B.C.( or B.C.E.) indicates "Before the Christian Era". Thus, B.C. 1 (since those years ascend from Jesus's birth date into the distant past) is followed immediately by A.D. 1; there is no year 0, obviously. (Later calculations have suggested that Christ's birth year was actually about B.C. 3, rather than the arbitrarily assigned A.D. 1.)

Answer 3

Actually 1 A.D. is not the year Jesus was born, but the Pope decided in 532 A.D. that was the correct date. Most do not believe 33 A.D. is the correct date for Jesus' death, either.

The Julian calendar was introduced in 709 AUC (or 45 BC) and was quite similar to our current Gregorian calendar. It had 12 months, and attempted to measure solar years by using occasional 366-day years.

Of course, at the time of Jesus' life, years were not called BC and AD; Roman AUC years were used. It was not until 532 AD that the Pope, with significant influence, replaced Julian AUC years with Julian AD years.

It is a common mis-conception that AD years were set so that Jesus was born in 1 AD. This is not correct. 1 AD was set to meet two criteria:

Jesus had to have been alive on January 1st, 1 AD
Every AD year evenly divisible by 4 was to be a 366-day year
With recorded history at the time (in 532 AD), it was known that Jesus was alive on January 1st, 3BC. So 1 AD was set to the next year that allowed 366-day years to occur in AD years exactly divisible by 4. It is now apparent that Christ was born during 5 BC, and was therefore alive on January 1st, 4 BC, but this was not certain in 532 AD.

Answer 4

BC: "Before Christ"
AD: "Anno Domini" (In the year of our Lord, meaning the year 1, when Jesus was born [not died])

Calculations were a bit off, so Jesus was actually born somewhere between 4 and 10 B.C. and died about 33 years later, so between 23 and 29 A.D.

And to be more global in your terminology, the newer, more broadly accepted terminology is BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era), but it is still centered around the supposed birth of Jesus.

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Answer 5

1) We refer to it as AD. AD does not mean "After Death" but "In the Year of Our Lord".

2) It was not called either BC or AD back then, because that dating system was not proposed until the sixth century, and it was not popular until nearly nine hundred years after Christ.

3) It is an imperfect dating method. It is supposed he was born in 4BC but recent astronomical and historical discoveries may place it in 1BC.

Answer 6

Either C.E. (the Common Era) or A.D. (anno domoni, Latin for "in the year of our Lord.") These began around the time of Jesus' birth.

His lifetime was included in C.E. and A.D. There was no zero year or gap. After 1 B.C.E. came 1 C.E. And then forward from there.

Before that was either B.C.E. (before the Common Era) or B.C. (before Christ), depending on who you ask. B.C.E. and C.E. are considered more accurate.

Answer 7

AD means anno domini in the year of our lord. 1 AD was the year that Jesus was born. There is no gap.

Answer 8

a.d means anno domini the year of our lord so those 33 years are still a.d

Answer 9

AD doesn't me "After he died." It means "anno domini," or "the year of Our Lord." Both BC and AD are fading as far as common usage goes, however, so I wouldn't worry about it much.

Answer 10

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