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From: hoffman@hdsvx1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Counting Years
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 08:04:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 08:04:22 1986
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Charles E. Camisa writes:
> Jesus Christ!  BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini [Year of the
> Lord] or After Death) are outdated.  Now we say for the present, 
> "CE" for Christian era, or "BCE" for before Christian era.

I have only seen this used in Jewish Scholarship and religious texts.
Since the whole idea is to avoid using a "Christian" dating scheme,
the definition is usually given as "Common Era" for CE (AD) and
"Before Common Era" (BCE).
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