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[German Version] (c. 470–540). Born in Scythia, Dionysius moved to Rome about 500 ce. He translated into Latin a number of Greek patristic works, including the De opificio hominis of Gregory of Nyssa. Dionysius also compiled a comprehensive collection of ecclesiastical canons, from the Apostolic Canons to the Council of Chalcedon. In 525 he was commissioned to prepare new calculations for the date of Easter (Chronology: IV). Dionysius extended for another 95 years the tables of Cyril of Alexandria, who had calculated the dates for the years 153 to 247 from the Alexandrian era of Diocletian. Dionysius chose not to perpetuate the memory of the great persecutor. In his tables, the year 532 from Christ followed the year 247 of Diocletian. Through the influence of these tables, Dionysius became the author of the Christian era that is now …

[German Version] I. History of Religions – II. Old Testament and Early Judaism – III. New Testament – IV. Christian Time-Reckoning – V. Chronology in Scholarly Study I. History of Religions Not every culture has a word for what we call time and, if so, then with clearly different nuances of meaning. ¶ From the perspective of the history of religions, therefore, chronology can only refer figuratively to the division, arrangement, and measurement of what modern European languages call time. A distinct division…