What do BCE and CE (found in the Bible timelines) refer to?
While Christians generally use the abbrieviations BC (for “Before Christ”) and AD (from the Latin Anno Domini, “In the year of our Lord”) to define historical dates, many scholars use the more inclusive BCE (“Before the Common Era”) and CE (“Common Era”) to avoid insensitivity to non-Christians. This is intended to reflect the diversity and global outlook of our rapidly expanding sense of our world.
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