Original sentence: After Herod's death in 4 BC, Judea and Samaria were combined into the Roman province of Palestina, ruled by the Jewish High Priest under the supervision of a Roman procurator.Dionysius then set Jesus' birth as being December 25 1 BC, and assigned  AD 1 to the following year — thereby establishing the system of numbering years from the birth of Jesus: Anno Domini (making the then current year AD/CE 532).However, based on a lunar eclipse that Josephus reports shortly before the death of Herod the Great, the birth of Christ would have been some time before the year 4 BC, probably 5 or 6 BC.The Common Era (CE) reckoning of years is a derivation of the Anno Domini (AD) system, using BCE for BC and CE for AD.Those gospels depict little of his early life, apart from stories surrounding his birth, which according to best estimates would have been about 6 – 4 BC
Edited sentence: After Herod's death in 4 BC/BCE, Judea and Samaria were combined into the Roman province of Palestina, ruled by the Jewish High Priest under the supervision of a Roman procurator.Dionysius then set Jesus' birth as being December 25 1 BC/BCE, and assigned  AD/CE 1 to the following year — thereby establishing the system of numbering years from the birth of Jesus: Anno Domini (making the then current year AD/CE 532).However, based on a lunar eclipse that Josephus reports shortly before the death of Herod the Great, the birth of Christ would have been some time before the year 4 BC/BCE, probably 5 or 6 BC/BCE.The Common Era (CE) reckoning of years is a derivation of the Anno Domini (AD) system.Those gospels depict little of his early life, apart from stories surrounding his birth, which according to best estimates would have been about 6 – 4 BC/BCE