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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![and thirty years. Now eusebius doth not reckon this kainan and his years in his table of years; neither doth the Hebrew Book (i.e. the Bible: see Genesis xi. 12-14), and our Syrian Book doth not. But luke (see chap, iii, v. 36) mentioneth him in the Gospel. And according to what is said, it was he who invented chaldayutha (i.e. Astrology and the Art of Magic). His sons worshipped him as a god, and set up an image of him; thence began the worship of idols. And he built the city of harran in the name of haran his son. After kainan [came] shalah his son. When he was one hundred and thirty years old he begot 'abhar (eber) ; all [the days of] his life were four hundred and sixty years. After shalah [came] 'abhar (eber) his son. He was one hundred and thirty and three years old when he begot palagh (peleg) ; all [the days of] his life were three hundred and forty-three years. And it is said that the Hebrews derive their name from him. After 'abhar (eber) [came] palagh his son. He was one hundred and thirty years when he begot ’ar'o (reu) ; all [the days of] his life were three hundred and forty-three years. And in the one hundred and first year of his [life] panopis, the first king of EGYPT, reigned sixty-eight years. And in the one hundred and fortieth year of palagh the earth was divided a second time, between the sons of noah. And to the sons of shem [8] came the inheritance from the middle of the inhabited world to the limit thereof on the east, [including] Palestine, Arabia, and Phoenicia, and the country of Syria, and all the country between the Two Rivers (Mesopo¬ tamia), and hyrcania, and ’athor (Assyria), and the country of sen'ar (shinar), and babil, and kardo, and all Persia, and northern India and bactriana. And to the sons of ham [came the inheritance], the whole of the south, from east to west, India (Central, Outer, and Southern), kush, shebha, EGYPT, lybia, thebais, Africa, and towards the north CILICIA, PAMPHYLIA, PISIDIA, MYSIA, PHRYGIA, LUKYA (LYCIA), LYDIA, and of the Islands [of the mediterranean] Cyprus, Chios, sicily, and twenty others. And to the sons of japhet [came the inheritance], the whole of the north from east to west, the country of the ’alanaye (Germans), the Turks, MEDIA, ARMENIA, CAPPADOCIA, GALATIA, ASIA, MYSIA, TARKI (THRACE?), ’iladha (hellas), the land of the Greeks (ionians), the rhomaye (byzan- TINES), the S ARM AT IANS, the ’ASKLABHE (SCLAVS), the BULGARS, the GALLAYE (gauls ?), the Spaniards as far as gadira. And after palagh died and the sons of jaktan, his brother, saw that they had no inheritance, they set up three governors, shebha, and ’Asher, and haw!la, and they seized [other] countries. And men began to build fort¬ resses (or, citadels) whereunto they might go and take refuge from the armour (or, weapons) of the sons of jaktan, for they were the first to begin](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
