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This camp includes the great [[Rabbi]] [[Hillel II]], inventor of the nineteen-year-cyclic luni-solar [[Hebrew calendar]] used by [[Judaism|Jews]] worldwide, and especially in present-day [[Israel]].<ref name=JewFaq>Tracy R. Rich, "[http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm Jewish calendar]," ''[[Judaism]] 101'', 2005. Retrieved April 30, 2007.</ref> This calendar calculates Creation, which presumably would fall on 1 Tishri Year 1, as October 7, 3761 BC according to the [[Julian calendar]].<ref name=Converter>[http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ Calendar Converter] by Fourmilab (requires JavaScript to operate)</ref> | This camp includes the great [[Rabbi]] [[Hillel II]], inventor of the nineteen-year-cyclic luni-solar [[Hebrew calendar]] used by [[Judaism|Jews]] worldwide, and especially in present-day [[Israel]].<ref name=JewFaq>Tracy R. Rich, "[http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm Jewish calendar]," ''[[Judaism]] 101'', 2005. Retrieved April 30, 2007.</ref> This calendar calculates Creation, which presumably would fall on 1 Tishri Year 1, as October 7, 3761 BC according to the [[Julian calendar]].<ref name=Converter>[http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ Calendar Converter] by Fourmilab (requires JavaScript to operate)</ref> | ||
The Hillel Tradition is at | The Hillel Tradition is at the greatest odds with the others discussed here primarily because it assumes that the [[Messiah]] was ''not'' [[Jesus Christ]] at all, but a rebel leader named [[Simon bar Hochva]], who revolted against [[Rome]] in 135 AD, prompting [[Emperor]] [[Hadrian]] to scatter the Jews to the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire (the [[Diaspora]]) and rename the region from ''Judea'' to ''Palaestina'', which is the nearest equivalent to "Philistia" in [[Latin]]. | ||
The primary source for the Hillel Tradition is the ''Seder Olam'', a second century Targum of Rabbinic Judaism. | The primary source for the Hillel Tradition is the ''Seder Olam'', a second century Targum of Rabbinic Judaism. |