Anno Mundi Anno Mundi, 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 or the Hebrew Jewish Tanakh. The net difference between the two major genealogies of Genesis was 1466 years, which is virtually all of the 1500-year difference between 5500 BC and 4000 BC. ⁕The older dates about 5500 BC are based on the Greek Septuagint. The Byzantine calendar has been in general use at one time in the Christian Orthodox Churches and several Eastern European countries.
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