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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![from beauty, and light, and healing, and therefore it is right that every physician should be like unto him in purity, and chasteness, and holiness’. And galen said, ‘It is not seemly to deny the healing which cometh to the sick when they go into the temple of ’asklaipyadis’. And Hippocrates saith, ‘His staff on which he supported himself was the netaphta (i.e. marsh¬ mallow = hibiscum, or althaea ficifolia or officinalis)’. And galen saith, ‘It indicateth moderation, which is the most excellent thing, because the marsh¬ mallow is half-way between heat and cold. After Enoch [came] mathushlah (methuselah) his son. When he was one hundred and sixty and seven years old he begot lamkh (lamech) ; all his days were nine hundred and sixty and two years. After methuselah [came] lamech his son. When he was five hundred years old he begot shem ; all the days of his life were nine hundred and fifty years. In the six hundredth year of his [life] the flood took place on the twenty-seventh day of [the month of] iyar. There was heavy rain for forty days, and the waters increased and floated the ark which noah had made, and he and his wife, and his three sons and their wives went into it by the command of God. And the waters rose up above the high mountains to a height of fifteen cubits. Then the wrath subsided, and on [7] the twenty- seventh day of the month of iyar of the year following, they went forth from the ark, which they left in apamaea, the metropolis of pisidia. According to what josephus said: the years from ad am to the flood added together are two thousand, and two hundred, and forty and two. And then noah divided the earth among his three sons: The Border of shem: From Persia and bhakurtos to hendo (india) and rinokura, [where are] the Assyrians, the chaldeans, the lydians (the lurians ?), the Syrians, the Hebrews, and the PERSIANS. The Border of ham: From rinokura to gadhiron. And his sons are, the Indians, the hitaye (hittites), the yabhusaye (the jebusites), the hawaye (the hivites), the amorites, the girgasites, the ’arodhaye (the ARVADITES). The Border of yapht (japhet) : From media to gadhiron, the north side. And his sons are the Macedonians, the Armenians, the medes, the Greeks, the Latins, the Byzantines, [and] the ’ibheraye. After noah [came] shem his son. When he was one hundred and one years old he begot ’arpachshar (arphaxad) ; all [the days of] his life were two hundred years. After shem [came] arphaxad his son. When he was one hundred and thirty years old he begot kainan ; all [the days of] his life were four hundred and sixty and five years. After arphaxad [came] kainan his son. When he was one hundred and thirty years old he begot shalah ; all [the days of] his life were four hundred](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
