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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![THE FIRST PART OF THE CHRONOGRAPHY l THE PATRIARCHS. FROM ADAM TO MOSES The First Series of generations, which beginneth with the Patriarchs [3]1 ADAM, the first man, the king of those who are on the earth, -/jL according to the opinion of the Divine Book, was created on Friday, the sixth day of the month of nisan, the first month of year one of the existence of the world, which began on the first day of the week (Sunday), the first day of the month of nisan. Now ’anyanos1 2 3 (anianus) the monk, adducing testimonies from the Book of Enoch, saith, that seventy years after the expulsion from paradise, adam knew eve, and she brought forth cain. And after seven (or, seventy) years, she brought forth abel. And after fifty-three years cain slew abel, and adam and eve mourned for him one hundred years. And then adam knew eve again, and she brought forth seth. And according to methodius 3 thirty (or, three) years after they had gone forth from paradise [adam] begot cain together with klimya (or klima, or eklima) his sister. And after another thirty years [adam] begot abel together with labhudha (or, 'abhudha) his sister. And when adam was one hundred and thirty years old abel was killed, and when he was two hundred4 and thirty years old he begot seth. [4] All the years that adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. After adam [came] seth his son. In the time of seth, when his sons remembered the blessed life [which they had led] in paradise, they went up into the mountain of hermon, and there they led a chaste and holy life, being remote from carnal intercourse (or, marriage); and for this reason they were called 'ire (i.e. ‘Watchers’, and ‘Sons of ’alohim’ ( = Sons of God)). Now seth, being two hundred and five years old, begot ’anosh ; and all the years that seth lived was nine hundred and twelve years. After seth [came] ’anosh his son. Fie announced that he would call upon the Name of the Lord. Now, although he submitted to marriage, he was 1 The numbers in brackets refer to the pages of Bedjan’s text. 2 The writer of a Chronicle now lost. 3 Bishop of Tyre; martyred about a.d. 300. 4 a general warning by bedjan. Various statements will be found in this history which do not agree with the Book of the Law of the Syrians which is called ‘Peshifta’, especially those which refer to the number of the years of the world, the lives of the Patriarch, and so on. It is not seemly for us to stumble over these because our author made use of the Book of the Law according to the Seventy (i.e. the Septuagint), and the Book of the Law according to the Samaritans, and other ancient [versions of the] Scriptures, and he wrote down in historical fashion the opinion of each one of them even as he found it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
