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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 old Anno Mundi calendar theoretically commenced with the creation of the world based on information in the Old Testament. It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end 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.). In this calendar era, the year number equals the number of years that have passed since the creation of the world, according to an interpretation of Biblical accounts of the creation and subsequent history.
A.R.S. – Anno Reparatæ Salutis ("In the year of Our Redemption") A.U. – Alma Urbs ("Beloved City" — i.e., Rome) Authen. – Authentica ("Authentic" — e.g. letters) Aux. – Auxilium, Auxilio ("Help", "With the help of") A.D. – Ante Diem (e.g. in the phrase, "Ante Diem VI [or Sextum] Kal. Apriles", is equivalent to the sixth day ...
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]
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. [7] [8] Anno Mundi 6000 (c. 500) was thus equated with the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. [9]
Anno mundi year number [ edit ] Year numbers used by this template, both as input and output, are based on the Anno Mundi ("years since creation") year numbering tradition currently in use (Note that other year numbering systems [epoch dates] were more commonly used than this as late as the tenth century CE).
The most extensive and influential recent compilation in English of the writings and mindset of the early Church Fathers on Orthodox-Byzantine calendar and biblical chronography is found in the book "Genesis, Creation, and Early Man: The Orthodox Christian Vision," based on the work of the American hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Rose, edited by Abbot ...