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Occasionally, Anno Mundi is styled as Anno Hebraico (AH), [21] though this is subject to confusion with notation for the Islamic Hijri year. The Jewish Anno Mundi count is sometimes referred to as the "Hebrew era", to distinguish it from other systems such as the Byzantine calendar (which uses a different calculation of the year since creation.
The calendar was based on the Julian calendar, except that the year started on 1 September and the year number used an Anno Mundi epoch derived from the Septuagint version of the Bible.
The Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year before the Creation of the world. The Jewish year number is generally given by Anno Mundi (from Latin "in the year of the world", often abbreviated AM or A.M.).
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.
Accordingly, any use of the calendar (or this template) earlier than the calendar's establishment — whenever that might have been — must be viewed as proleptic. This template is not designed to be used for dates earlier than AM (Anno mundi) 1, and does not work properly for such dates.
The current Anno Mundi calendar commenced with the creation of the world based on information in the Greek Septuagint. It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (or 5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.
Typically, a Jewish date is only informative if it can be identified in relation to some other point of reference, in this case, usually another calendar. [28] Today, however, Jews make use of the era known as Anno Mundi, the "era of creation," in their transaction of dates. [29] [30]
The inscription over the Bevis Marks Synagogue, City of London, gives the year 5461 in Anno Mundi and 1701 in civil calendar dating. The civil calendar is the calendar, or possibly one of several calendars, used within a country for civil, official, or administrative purposes. [1]