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Anno Mundi (from Latin "in the year of the world"; Hebrew: לבריאת העולם, romanized: Livryat haOlam, lit. 'to the creation of the world'), abbreviated as AM or A.M. , or Year After Creation , [ 1 ] is a calendar era based on the biblical accounts of the creation of the world and subsequent history.
The eastern Church avoided the use of the Anno Domini system of Dionysius Exiguus, since the date of Christ's birth was debated in Constantinople as late as the 14th century. The Byzantine calendar was identical to the Julian calendar except that: the names of the months were transcribed from Latin into Greek;
The missing years in the Hebrew calendar refer to a chronological discrepancy between the rabbinic dating for the destruction of the First Temple in 422 BCE (3338 Anno Mundi) [1] and the academic dating of it in 587 BCE.
[27] [28] As with Anno Domini (A.D. or AD), the words or abbreviation for Anno Mundi (A.M. or AM) for the era should properly precede the date rather than follow it. The reference junction of the Sun and the Moon (Molad 1) is considered to be at 5 hours and 204 halakim, or 11:11:20 p.m., on the evening of Sunday, 6 October 3761 BCE. [29]
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, the current year is numbered 2025 in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).
Anno Mundi (years since the creation of the world) is used in the Byzantine calendar (5509 BC). Anno Mundi (years since the creation of the world) as used in the Hebrew calendar (3761 BC). [1] [2] The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar uses the creation of the fourth world in 3114 BC.
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Based on a calculation using the Masoretic Text recorded in the Seder Olam Rabbah (c 160 AD) of Rabbi Jose ben Halafta, the first five days of creation in Genesis were in Anno Mundi 1, [29] and the creation of Adam was on 1 Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah) in Anno Mundi 2 [26] [27] which corresponds to 3760 BC. [25] [49] The official Anno Mundi epoch is ...