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It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be required in 985 languages where no work is currently known to be in progress. They also estimate that there are currently around 3,526 languages in 173 countries which have active Bible translation projects (with or without some portion already published).
In Hebrew, Anno Mundi years are labeled "in the year of the world" (לבריאת העולם), while in English they are abbreviated AM or A.M.. Occasionally, Anno Mundi is styled as Anno Hebraico (AH) , [ 21 ] though this is subject to confusion with notation for the Islamic Hijri year .
Serampore Missionary Press First Bengali New Testament. Nathaniel B. Halhead of the East India Company published a Bengali grammar for British officials in 1776 to aid interaction with the local Bengali population. [1] William Carey of Serampore translated the Bible into the Bengali language and published it in 1793 and 1801.
The English translation in The Koren Jerusalem Bible, which is Koren's Hebrew/English edition, is by Professor Harold Fisch, a Biblical and literary scholar, and is based on Friedländer's 1881 Jewish Family Bible, but it has been "thoroughly corrected, modernized, and revised". [18] The Koren Jerusalem Bible incorporates some unique features:
The Bengali Calendar incorporates the seven-day week as used by many other calendars. The names of the days of the week in the Bengali Calendar are based on the Navagraha (Bengali: নবগ্রহ nôbôgrôhô). The day begins and ends at sunrise in the Bengali calendar, unlike in the Gregorian calendar, where the day starts at midnight.
The modern Hebrew calendar has been designed to ensure that certain holy days and festivals do not fall on certain days of the week. As a result, there are only four possible patterns of days on which festivals can fall. (Note that Jewish days start at sunset of the preceding day indicated in this article.)
Replica of the Gezer calendar in Israel Museum, Israel.. The Gezer calendar is a small limestone tablet with an early Canaanite inscription discovered in 1908 by Irish archaeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister in the ancient city of Gezer, 20 miles west of Jerusalem.
Tu BiShvat is the cut-off date for determining to which year the tithes belong. [citation needed] Tu BiShvat falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat and begins a three-month series (in years without a leap year) of holidays that occur on the mid-month full moons that culminate in Passover. [10]