3760 B.C.E.

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3760 B.C.E. is the year that marks the beginning of the Hebrew calendar calculated from the year of creation of Adam and Eve.[1] The first day in the Hebrew calendar does not start of the 1st day of any month as might be expected, but on the 25 Elul.[2] Adam and Eve were created on the 1 Tishrei.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ p.7, Kantor
  2. ^ Rabbi Eliezer, Midrash Rabba Bereishit 4, p.181, Freedman
  3. ^ Pirke d'Rabbi Eliezer 8, p.12, Friedlander

[edit] Sources

  • Kantor, Mattis, The Jewish time line encyclopedia: a year-by-year history from Creation to the Present, (New updated edition), Jason Aronson, Northvale NJ, 1992
  • Freedman, H., Dr., Rabbi, (trans.), Simon, Maurice, Midrash Rabbah: Genesis, Volume I, The Soncino Press, London, 1983
  • Friedlander, Gerald, (trans.), Midrash Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer: The chapters of Rabbi Eliezer the Great, Sepher-Hermon Press, New York, 1981
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