More Pedantry.

From: Michael Cule <mikec_at_room3b.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:25:24 +0000

> The issue is made even more silly by the current historical evidence
>showing that Herod the Great died in 3BC and since Jesus was born during
>his reign, the current year is really 2003 or possibly 2004.

Or contrarywise, that the 'decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed' seems to refer to an event in 10 AD so it's only 1990.

(I haven't looked that up, thus giving even greater pedants the chance to jump all over me.)

• -- Michael Cule

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