The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
- Bar Hebraeus
- Date:
- 1932
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![manner for seven (or, seventy) years—until ged'on (gideon) destroyed them. After the midianites, gideon judged the people for forty years. Unto gideon were born seventy sons. In [his] time there reigned in thebes ’apolon (apollo ?), who by the music of his lyre used to coax the stones, that is to say, the hearts that were heavy and cruel. After gideon [came] abimelech his son, who was born of a concubine. And he slew his seventy brethren and judged the people for three years. After abimelech, tol'a the son of poa [judged] the people for twenty years. And in the twentieth year of his [rule] the city of tarsos (tarsus) was built by prisos (parsos) the son of dana, and karkidon (carthage) also was built and ilion (ilium) was reduced to subjection, but others say that it was subjugated in the days of shemshon (samson). After tol'a, yair, the Gileadite, judged the people twenty-two years. After yair the ammonites ruled the Hebrews in a cruel fashion for eighteen years, and they oppressed the Hebrews sorely until they were con¬ quered by NAPHTAH (jEPHTHAH). After the ammonites, jephthah [ruled the people] for six years. Those [who say] twenty-four years include the eighteen years of the ammonites with the six years. Now when the Hebrews were sorely oppressed by the ammonites the dwellers in gilead went to jephthah, after they had driven him out from among them, and brought him [back] and he became their governor. It was he who having fought and conquered offered up his daughter as a sacrifice, according to his vow which cannot be applauded. After jephthah, ’abhisan [ruled] seven years. Some of the writers of histories never mention this name at all. After ’abhisan, ’alon, the zebulonite [ruled] ten years. JOHN of yatreb says seven [years], and this [name also] is not [found] in the commentary of the Septuagint. After ’alon, 'akhron [ruled] eight years. In the seventh year of this man there rose up ’anias (aeneas) the first king of the Latins, that is to say, the rhomaye (Byzantine Greeks), who were the franks ; [according to some he reigned] three years, and according to others eight. After ’akhron the Philistines ruled the people cruelly for forty years. eusebius doth not admit these, but ’anianus sets down forty years and andronicus says twenty years only. After the Philistines, samson the nazarite, of the tribe of dan, judged the people twenty [17] years. And in his third year he began to wage war against the Philistines, and in his fifth year took place the affair of ra'oth (ruth), the MOABITESS. After samson the elders ruled the people for forty years, according to what africanus stateth, because there was peace and quietness, and there was no need for a man to stand at the head of an army, andronicus says](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
