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57. AD/BC
Manage episode 180521331 series 61882
There’s a small matter I trip over regularly in the Allusionist:
Dates.
Not the fruit.
Specicially, the terms BC and AD, Before Christ and Anno Domini (‘the year of the Lord’ (‘the Lord’ also being Christ)). How did Jesus Christ get to be all up in our system of counting the years?
There’s more about the episode at http://theallusionist.org/abdc.
Stay in touch at http://twitter.com/allusionistshow and http://facebook.com/allusionistshow.
Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
222 episodes
Manage episode 180521331 series 61882
There’s a small matter I trip over regularly in the Allusionist:
Dates.
Not the fruit.
Specicially, the terms BC and AD, Before Christ and Anno Domini (‘the year of the Lord’ (‘the Lord’ also being Christ)). How did Jesus Christ get to be all up in our system of counting the years?
There’s more about the episode at http://theallusionist.org/abdc.
Stay in touch at http://twitter.com/allusionistshow and http://facebook.com/allusionistshow.
Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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