John Cowan wrote:
>I would recommend instead that you use the year 4173 B.C.E.
>It is comfortably before the beginning of history, and is the base
>date for the Julian day count: 2452421 days ago. This date was
>chosen as the year in which three different cycles were all in
>registry: the 28-year solar cycle of the civil year, the 19-year lunar
cycle
>of the Babylonian/Jewish year, and the arbitrary 15-year cycle
>of the Roman tax year.
Is that date in any way related to the putative Creation according to
Genesis, as it was determined by some 18th or 19th century cleric, working
backwards from all the begats and kings' reigns etc. in the Bible??