Thebirth of Jesus (pictured above) is widely regarded to have been placed byDionysus Exiguus, inventor of theAnno Domini dating system, in 1 BC. Modern scholarship, however, regards the birth of Christ to have taken place between 6 and 4 BC.[1]
Estimatedbirth of Jesus, in the Christian religion, as assigned byDionysius Exiguus in hisAnno Domini era; according to most scholars, Dionysius used the word "incarnation", but it is not known whether he meant conception or birth. However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the incarnation of Jesus in the next year,AD 1.[10][11] Most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, and place the event several years earlier.[12]
^Meier, John P. (1991). "A Chronology of Jesus' Life".A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol. v. 1. Anchor Bible Reference Library. pp. 373–433.
^Singh, Rajesh Kumar (2013).Ajanta Paintings: 86 Panels of Jatakas and Other Themes. Hari Sena. pp. 15–16.ISBN9788192510750.
^Georges Declercq,Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.
^G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era",Sacris Erudiri41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion ofAnno Domini.
^James D. G. Dunn,Jesus Remembered, Eerdmans Publishing (2003), page 324.
