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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Written by the Holy Ghost? and others
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:56:16 -0700


Bill,
This whole topic of BC/BCE etc makes me wonder if we can find
anything stupider to argue about.

> Ian wrote:-
>
> >(Do you still use terms such as spokesman or
> >chairman -- when dealing with women?)
>
> Rather off topic, but the answer is yes. These are the correct
> terms to use, and I use them. I can remember Barbara Stewart introducing
> herself in this manner -- ``Good evening ladies and gentleman, I'm Barbara
> Stewart, Chairman of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra...'' all through
> the period when she was chairman.
>
> >You will find in international and
> >cross-cultural scholarly circles that CE/BCE is in fact used.
>
> and askes
>
> >What do you have against using CE and BCE?
>
> I'm well aware that's it's used. But I don't see the point. If I am
> offended by pigs calling them sheep doesn't actually change anything.
> Our dating system is pivoted around a particular calculation of the year
> of Jesus' birth. AD/BC, CE/BCE, +/-, whatever. None of these alter the
> fact that its a Christian dating system, developed by Christians for
> Christian use. So they got the dates wrong. It doesn't in any way
> change the *intention* of the system.
>
> On rare occasions I have used the Jewish dating system and the Muslim
> one, but I did not feel I had to strip away or hide the origin of
> those dating systems. Quite the contrary.
>
>
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