Editing Dating creation (section)

===Septuagint===
Many of the earliest Christians who used the [[Septuagint]] version of the Bible calculated creation as having occurred about 5500 BC, and Christians up to the [[Middle Ages]] continued to use this rough estimate: [[Clement of Alexandria]] (5592 BC), [[Theophilus of Antioch]] (5529 BC), [[Sextus Julius Africanus]] (5501 BC), [[Hippolytus of Rome]] (5500 BC), [[Panodorus of Alexandria]] (5493 BC), [[Maximus the Confessor]] (5493 BC), [[George Syncellus]] (5492 BC), [[Sulpicius Severus]] (5469 BC), [[Isidore of Seville]] (5336 BC) and [[Gregory of Tours]] (5200 BC).<ref>''A Collation of the Sacred Scriptures'', Charles Roger Dundee, 1847, p. 20.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robibradshaw.com/chapter3 |title=Creationism and the Early Church - Chapter 3 |publisher=Robibrad.demon.co.uk |access-date=2015-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000930010835/http://www.robibrad.demon.co.uk/Chapter3.htm |archive-date=2000-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Jones26>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsITeHwP9K0C&q=%22date+of+creation%22+%22no+dispute%22&pg=PA26 |title=Chronology of the Old Testament: Solving the Bible's Most Intriguing Mysteries |author=Floyd Nolen Jones |publisher=New Leaf Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-89051-416-0 |page=26 |access-date=2014-06-02}}</ref><ref> A history of the Franks, Gregory of Tours, Pantianos Classics, 1916</ref> The [[Byzantine calendar]] has traditionally dated the creation of the world to September 1, 5509 BC.

The ''[[Chronicon (Eusebius)|Chronicon of Eusebius]]'' (early 4th century) dated creation to 5228 BC while [[Chronicon (Jerome)|Jerome]] (c. 380, [[Constantinople]]) dated creation to 5199 BC.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sKsC-txuJIEC&pg=PA69 ''The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629123039/https://books.google.com/books?id=sKsC-txuJIEC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&ots=_HcftVewNm&sig=I9_s1OGRsuaE08Xm3sJfs4P-xjg |date=June 29, 2016 }} by Andrew Galloway page 69</ref> In the ''[[Roman Martyrology]]'', the [[Proclamation of the Birth of Christ]] formerly used this date,<ref>{{CathEncy| wstitle=Biblical Chronology | last=Howlett | first=J.A.}}</ref> as did the Irish ''[[Annals of the Four Masters]]''.<ref>[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text025.html from 5194 AM in the Annals at CELT] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195828/http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text025.html |date=March 3, 2016 }} — [[University College Cork]]'s ''Corpus of Electronic Texts'' project has the full text of the annals online, both in the original Irish and in O'Donovan's translation</ref>

[[Bede]] was one of the first to break away from the standard Septuagint date for the creation and in his work ''De Temporibus'' ("On Time") (completed in 703 AD) dated the creation to 18 March 3952 BC but was accused of heresy at the table of Bishop [[Wilfrid]], because his chronology was contrary to accepted calculations of around 5500 BC.<ref>''The Reckoning of Time'', Wallis, Faith, trans, pp. xxx, 405–415.</ref>