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Anno Mundi
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Anno Mundi (Latin: "in the year of the world"), abbreviated as AM or A.M., or Year After Creation, refers to a Calendar era based on the biblical creation of the world.
Numerous efforts have been made to determine the biblical date of Creation, yielding varying results. Besides differences in interpretation, which version of the Bible is being referenced also impacts on the result. Two dominant dates for creation using such models exist. These were calculated from the genealogies in two versions of the Bible, with most of the difference arising from two versions of the Book of Genesis. Patriarchs from Adam to Terah, the father of Abraham, are said to be older by as much as 100 years or more when they begat their named son in the Greek Christian Septuagint than they were in the Latin Christian Vulgate (Genesis 5; Genesis 11) or the Hebrew Jewish Tanakh (Gen 5; Gen 11). The net difference between the two major genealogies of Genesis was 1466 years (ignoring the "second year after the flood" ambiguity), which is virtually all of the 1500-year difference between 5500 BC and 4000 BC. (See Dating creation.)
The older dates about 5500 BC are based on the Greek (Christian) Septuagint. The Byzantine calendar has been in general use at one time in the Christian Orthodox Churches and several Eastern European countries.
The younger dates about 4000 BC are based on the Hebrew Jewish Masoretic text. The Hebrew calendar era is used within the Jewish communities
