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Anno Mundi (from Latin "in the year of the world"; Hebrew: לבריאת העולם, romanized : Livryat haOlam, lit. 'to the creation of the world'), abbreviated as AM or A.M., or Year After Creation, [1] is a calendar era based on the biblical accounts of the creation of the world and subsequent history.
Anno Mundi (skrót: AM; ( łac. „rok świata”) – według kalendarza żydowskiego określenie daty ery kalendarzowej liczonej od stworzenia Świata.
Anno mundi (AM) is the year dating from the year of creation in Jewish chronology, based on rabbinic calculations. Learn about the origin, history, and usage of this system, as well as its relation to measurement theory and other topics.
The Jewish year used is the anno mundi year, in which the year of creation according to the Rabbinical Chronology (3761 BCE) is taken as year 1. Years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 of the Metonic cycle are leap years.
Anno Mundi. [L, year of the world].The year since the creation of the world, according to biblical revelation, abbreviated am. Medieval scholars were not uniform as to when this might have been. The Irish Annals of the Four Masters posited 5090 bc; e.g. 1000 bc would be 4090 am.
Anno mundi is a Latin phrase meaning in the year of the world, used to calculate dates from the creation of the world. Learn more about its origin, usage, and abbreviation from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
In secular texts, Jewish time is often noted as “A.M.” — anno mundo — literally, “years of the world.” (Occasionally, “A.M.” is explained as standing for aera mundi, “era of the world.”) This system of Jewish time is called the “Mundane Era” (English for aera mundi) because those who invented it believed they were ...
