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(Latin: "in the year of the world
World

World is a common name for the planet Earth seen from a human worldview, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to signify the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general....
") abbreviated as AM or A.M., refers to a Calendar era
Calendar era

A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar. For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era ....
 counting from the Biblical
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 creation
Creation according to Genesis

Creation according to Genesis is the creation myth found in the Hebrew Bible, . It describes the making of the Firmament and the Earth and of the first humans by God in Abrahamic religions ....
 of the world.

s in the Hebrew calendar
Hebrew calendar

The Hebrew calendar or Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar used by Jews, now predominantly for religious purposes. It is used to reckon the Jewish New Year and dates for Jewish holidays, and also to determine appropriate Torah reading of Torah portions, Yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses....
 are counted from the Creation year
Dating Creation

Cultures throughout history have believed the world formed or was formed at some time in the past, so methods of dating Creation have involved analysing Religious text and some physical data....
. The system in use today was adopted sometime before 3925 AM
Anno Mundi

File:Rotunda Yard Thessaloniki 05 Jew Tomb remains.JPG abbreviated as 'AM' or 'A.M.', refers to a Calendar era counting from the Bible Creation according to Genesis of the world....
 (165 CE), and based on the calculation in the Seder Olam Rabbah
Seder Olam Rabbah

Seder Olam Rabbah is the earliest post-exilic chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language. Tradition considers it to have been written about 160 CE by Yose b....
 of Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta in about 160 CE. By his calculation first humans were created in the year 3761 BCE.






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(Latin: "in the year of the world
World

World is a common name for the planet Earth seen from a human worldview, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to signify the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general....
") abbreviated as AM or A.M., refers to a Calendar era
Calendar era

A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar. For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era ....
 counting from the Biblical
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 creation
Creation according to Genesis

Creation according to Genesis is the creation myth found in the Hebrew Bible, . It describes the making of the Firmament and the Earth and of the first humans by God in Abrahamic religions ....
 of the world.

Jewish computation

Years in the Hebrew calendar
Hebrew calendar

The Hebrew calendar or Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar used by Jews, now predominantly for religious purposes. It is used to reckon the Jewish New Year and dates for Jewish holidays, and also to determine appropriate Torah reading of Torah portions, Yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses....
 are counted from the Creation year
Dating Creation

Cultures throughout history have believed the world formed or was formed at some time in the past, so methods of dating Creation have involved analysing Religious text and some physical data....
. The system in use today was adopted sometime before 3925 AM
Anno Mundi

File:Rotunda Yard Thessaloniki 05 Jew Tomb remains.JPG abbreviated as 'AM' or 'A.M.', refers to a Calendar era counting from the Bible Creation according to Genesis of the world....
 (165 CE), and based on the calculation in the Seder Olam Rabbah
Seder Olam Rabbah

Seder Olam Rabbah is the earliest post-exilic chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language. Tradition considers it to have been written about 160 CE by Yose b....
 of Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta in about 160 CE. By his calculation first humans were created in the year 3761 BCE. The Jewish year spanning 2008–2009 CE, after Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the "Judaism New Year." It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, as ordained in the Torah, in ....
, is 5769 AM
Anno Mundi

File:Rotunda Yard Thessaloniki 05 Jew Tomb remains.JPG abbreviated as 'AM' or 'A.M.', refers to a Calendar era counting from the Bible Creation according to Genesis of the world....
 in the Hebrew calendar.

Other computations

AM was also used by early Christian chronographers. The medieval historian Bede
Bede

Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
 dated creation to 18 March 3952 BCE. The Chronicon of Eusebius
Chronicon (Eusebius)

The Chronicon or Chronicle was a work in two books by Eusebius. It seems to have been compiled in the early 4th century. It contained a world chronicle from Abraham until the vicennalia of Constantine I in 325 AD....
 and Jerome
Chronicon (Jerome)

The Chronicle was a universal chronicle, one of Jerome's earliest attempts in the department of history. It was composed circa 380 in Constantinople; this is a translation into Latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from 325 to 379....
 dated creation to the year of 5199 BCE. Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology

The Roman Martyrology is the official Martyrology of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. It provides an extensive but not exhaustive list of the saints recognized by the Church....
 for Christmas Day used this date, as did the Irish Annals of the Four Masters
Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are a chronicle of Middle Ages Ireland history. The entries span from the Deluge , dated as 2,242 Anno Mundi to Anno Domini 1616....
.

The Etos Kosmou is the corresponding concept in the Byzantine calendar
Byzantine calendar

The Byzantine calendar was the calendar officially used by the Byzantine Empire from 988 by Basil II until it was conquered in 1453. It was identical to the Julian calendar except that the names of the months were transcribed from Latin into Greek language, the first day of the year was 1 September, and its year one was 6th millennium BC, th...
, which dates creation to 1 September 5509 BCE.

James Ussher
James Ussher

James Ussher was Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625?1656. He was a prolific scholar, who most famously published a Ussher chronology that purported to time and date Creation according to Genesis to the night preceding 27 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar....
 (1654) dated creation to 23 October 4004 BCE according to the Julian Calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
, which in the Gregorian Calendar
Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
 would be 21 September 4004 BCE.

Related to this is the Freemasonry
Freemasonry

Freemasonry is a fraternal and service organizations that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around 5 million ....
's Anno Lucis, which adds 4000 years to the CE date.

Sources

  • Mattis, Kantor, The Jewish time line encyclopedia: a year-by-year history from Creation to present, Jason Aronson Inc., Northvale, N.J., 1992


See also

  • Chronology of the Bible
    Chronology of the Bible

    Biblical chronology is the academic study of the dating of events in the Hebrew Bible.Many attempts have been made to link biblical chronology to the Gregorian calendar, on the assumption that the events related in the Bible were historical....
  • Dating creation
    Dating Creation

    Cultures throughout history have believed the world formed or was formed at some time in the past, so methods of dating Creation have involved analysing Religious text and some physical data....