Anno Mundi

Annus Mundi (Latin: World Year, often in Ablativus temporis: Anno Mundi, abbreviated AM or AM) is a term for the counting of the years of the determined time of the biblical creation to. The same meaning of the Latin phrase ab origine mundi and from orbis conditi. The counting of the years since the creation was common in Judaism, early Christianity, and in the Eastern Churches, and consists in Judaism to this day. In the Latin Church the yearly counting Anno Domini from the determined date of Christ's birth was common from the seventh century, as they had introduced 525 of the monk Dionysius Exiguus. Since the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Hebrew Samaritan Pentateuch, the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate contain data on the chronology on genealogies that can be interpreted in different ways and different in the old translations of the Bible by almost 1500 years of each other, the biblical age of the world has been repeatedly differently specified. Spread the Jewish era, the early Christian era and the Byzantine era, which can count the years with the year 3761 or 5199 or 5509 begin before the birth of Christ. The beginning of the year count that era is not the same as the first day of creation, falls on a different date in this calendar.

Jewish era

The beginning of the Jewish era, Tishri 1 of the year 1 AM corresponds, in the Julian calendar Sunday, October 6 (September 6, Greg. ), Clock 23:11, 3761 BC The date change will take place all in the Julian calendar midnight, why according to Jewish day count taking into account the date change on the eve of the 7th already Oktoberjul. / 7 September Greg. had begun. This date is almost a year before the estimated date for the creation of the world ( 25 Elul 1 AM).

Early Christian era

The early Christian chronicler Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 325) and Jerome (c. 380), which were based on the Greek Septuagint, dated the birth of Christ to the year 5200 AM and thus the creation in the year 5199 BC This followed them early issues the Roman Martyrology or the Irish annals of the Four Masters.

Byzantine era

In deviation was determined by the chronology in the Byzantine Empire and the Greco -Byzantine calendar nativity set 5510 AM in the year and so the year 5509 BC calculated as creation year. The bill after world years was in the Christian East previously common, but 5509 BC (invoice after the Constantinople era ) only by the Chronicon Paschale ( early 7th century AD) was canonized the year. This was followed by counting (up to 1700) and Russia. The Constantinople period from September 1, 5509 BC is half a year after the epoch of the Chronicon Paschale March 21, 5509 BC