2007-09-02 12:51:11 · 5 answers · asked by joy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
We are about to enter the year 5768 in the Jewish calendar (Rosh Hashanah is on September 13). They date it from creation which orthodox Jews believe began in what would call 3760 BC. There were no Jews that long ago, so the calendar is retroactive. The calendar was established earlier than the earliest Hebrew writings, so it's unknown exactly when it dates to, but before the 1st cent. AD.
2007-09-02 14:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
n the fourth century, Hillel II widespread a mounted calendar according to mathematical and astronomical calculations. This calendar, nevertheless in use, standardized the dimensions of months and the addition of months over the path of a 19 year cycle, so as that the lunar calendar realigns with the photograph voltaic years. Adar I is added interior the third, 6th, 8th, eleventh, 14th, seventeenth and nineteenth years of the cycle. the present cycle started out in Jewish year 5758 (the year that started out October 2, 1997).
2016-11-14 00:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish calendar starts with creation so, therefore, it starts with year zero (0).
2007-09-02 13:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by MICHAEL R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current Jewish year is 5767, soon to be 5768.
2007-09-03 03:56:47 · answer #4 · answered by BMCR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometime before Christ or BC?
2007-09-02 12:56:25 · answer #5 · answered by charlie the 2na 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋