It appears that The Jewish Calendar, The Bible, The Torah and The New Revised Egyptian Calendar are not in agreement.

The Jewish calendar has creation in the year 3761 BCE
The bible has been calculated to 4004 BCE
The Torah would have to agree with The Jewish Calendar
and the new Egyptian creation date is 3976 BCE (was there an old one ? )

All of them are however really remarkably close.

Of interest we have this little known fact. ( at least by me )

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According to Hebrew time reckoning, we are currently in the sixth millennium. The Hebrew year count starts in the year 3761 BCE (before common era). The practice was implemented in the 12th-century when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides established the time frame as the biblical date of Creation.

Thus it would appear that one single person decided the time for all of The Jews.

It is the same for Christendom with this as the sole basis for the date of creation :

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Even James Ussher (1581-1656), the famous and respected Archbishop of Ireland in the seventeenth century, is today greatly ridiculed for declaring that the world was created in 4004 BC.

So ... the date of 3976 may have been the template for both of these efforts, both The Jewish and The Christian since they are both agreed to have Egyptian roots.

Thus the ridicule of James Usher is perhaps not founded on facts. For we agree that a lot of Genesis has Mesopotamian roots. They could indeed all have a common source and Abraham may have brought the idea of a creation time using the stars and the movement of The Earth with him from Ur of The Chaldees.

Whatever the truth it is now obvious that the creation as described in all these books is not the creation of the true heavens and the Earth but really perhaps the creation of a civilization ... be it Sumerian or Egyptian. Very interesting.

db

"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db