4007 AA

Abraham about to kick someone's butt

All this talk by Yishai about it being '67 again (in the Hebrew counting) reminds me of an old idea of mine.

I think counting according to when Jesus was supposedly born, or crucified, is a bad idea. Otoh, it's hard to go from the present system to the Hebrew one. To go from 2007 to 5767 you have to add 3760. Who can do that in his head, except Chinese people? Very hard.

Saying 'CE' and 'BCE' doesn't do it for me either. The 'C' is still there, and we know what it originally stood for.

So I suggest a third way of counting. We start from Abraham, and we arbitrarily decide that 'Abraham' happened at 2000 BCE. That way, to get what year we are at After Abraham, you just add 2000 to the AD date. So we are now at 4007 AA.