Anno Mundi (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.
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Years in the Hebrew calendar are counted from the Creation year. The system in use today was adopted sometime before 3925 AM (165 AD), and based on the calculation in the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Jose ben Halafta in about 160 AD.[1] By his calculation first humans were created in the year 3760 BC.[2] The Jewish year spanning Sep 30, 2008 – Sep 19, 2009 AD, beginning and ending at Rosh Hashanah, is 5769 AM in the Hebrew calendar.
AM was also used by early Christian chronographers. The medieval historian Bede dated creation to 18 March 3952 BC. The Chronicon of Eusebius and Jerome dated creation to the year of 5199 BC.[3][4] Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology for Christmas Day used this date,[5] as did the Irish Annals of the Four Masters.[6]
The Etos Kosmou is the corresponding concept in the Byzantine calendar, which dates creation to 1 September 5509 BC.
James Ussher (1654) dated creation to 23 October 4004 BC according to the Julian calendar, which in the Gregorian calendar would be 21 September 4004 BC.
Related to this is the Freemasonry's Anno Lucis ("Year of Light", abbreviated A.L.), which adds 4000 years to the AD date.[7]
Howlett, J.A. (1913). "Biblical Chronology".
Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Biblical_Chronology.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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