Admittedly, CE/BCE is built on Christian terms, but I think they are still more religion-neutral than the previous practice of using BC and AD.
The alternative would be to use years as constructed by Orthodox Jews. These would not be understandable by any outside of that community. Plus, they would not agree with the Muslim understanding of time. From what I can reckon, the use of the commonly-understood numbers for time plus CE or BCE is the most religion-neutral way of describing time. It appears I have already lost this bet with RDA, so this is probably whistling in the wind. ;-) Buzz Haughton [email protected] __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
