Everything about Anno Mundi totally explained
(Latin: "in the year of the
world") abbreviated as
AM or
A.M., refers to a
Calendar era counting from the
Biblical creation of the world.
Jewish computation
Years in the
Hebrew calendar are counted from the
Creation year. The system in use today was adopted sometime before 3925
AM (165 CE), and based on the calculation in the
Seder Olam Rabbah 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 2007–2008 CE, after
Rosh Hashanah, is 5768
AM in the Hebrew calendar.
Other computations
AM was also used by
early Christian chronographers. The medieval historian
Bede dated creation to
18 March 3952 BCE. The
Chronicon of Eusebius and
Jerome dated creation to the year of
5199 BCE. Earlier editions of the
Roman Martyrology for
Christmas Day used this date, as did the Irish
Annals of the Four Masters.
The
Etos Kosmou is the corresponding concept in the
Byzantine calendar, which dates creation to
1 September 5509 BCE.
James Ussher (1654) dated creation to
23 October 4004 BCE according to the
Julian Calendar, which in the
Gregorian Calendar would be
21 September 4004 BCE.
Related to this is the Anno Lucis of the
Masonic era, which adds
4000 years to the CE date, and the
Julian day number, counting the days that have elapsed since noon
Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday,
1 January 4713 BCE.
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