Ussher deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday, OctoBC, in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox. This, however, is a misnomer, as the chronology is based on Ussher’s work alone and not that of Lightfoot. The chronology is sometimes called the Ussher-Lightfoot chronology because John Lightfoot published a similar chronology in 1642–1644. This was a major concern of many Christian scholars over the centuries. Ussher’s work was his contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth. (“Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world, the chronicle of Asiatic and Egyptian matters together produced from the beginning of historical time up to the beginnings of Maccabes”) The full title of Ussher’s work is Annales Veteris Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti, una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici principio usque ad Maccabaicorum initia producto. The chronology is sometimes associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was created only a few millennia ago by God as they believe is described in the first two chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis. The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland). Annales Veteris Testamenti page 1 (Latin)
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