Alternate calendar system for the Byzantine empire?

Marc

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I know, a relatively trivial (okay, very trivial) riff on history, but I'm composing a novella that is set in the 14th-century Mediterranean world, that is largely congruent with real history, where the calendar happens to incorporate parts of the Judaic/Babylonian (and later Arabic) system.

For example, the date: AD July, 381 is represented by Tammuz, 9th Indiction, 5889.

It's just a minor conceit, but I began thinking of how and why it might have occurred.

Any thoughts?

 

Marc

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All right, to do some of my own speculations. Perhaps a more nuanced and synergistic relationship developed between Christianized Rome and Jews - it could start as far back from not having the Mered Bar Kokhba (the 3rd Jewish revolt, 132-136 CE) occur at all.
Interesting, that is a bit of alternate history that isn't very much mentioned or explored, but had a profound effect on numerous events such as the development of Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd century, the history of the Roman empire in the Levant and Mesopotamia, the influence on Arabia etc. Not to mention the utterly profound effect on the subsequent evolution of rabbinic Judaism.
 
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