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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![six years. And he was the first who constructed a ship and rode (i.e. sailed) the sea. And after him rose up the third governor in Egypt, ’athanopyos (aithiops ?), and it was because he made war on the cushites and conquered them that he was called by this name, whereof the interpretation is ‘cushite’. And he slew shebha. And after shebha his daughter reigned forty years, and henceforward women began to reign over the cushites. And after ’apiphanyos a fourth king rose up in Egypt, per'on bar- sanos, [and he reigned] thirty and five years. From this time the name of ‘per'on’ (pharaoh) [came into use]. After serugh [came] nahor his son. He was seventy-nine years old when he begat tarh (terah) ; and all [the days of] his life were two hundred and one years. At this time kasaronos (basaronos) the parthian made war on samiros (?) and killed him, [10] and he lifted (i.e. carried off) his horns and set them on his crown. And ’arodh, the canaanite, saith, ‘In the twenty- fifth year of nahor the agony of job, the righteous man, took place, job was a rich man of beth yaktan, and seven times by himself alone he con¬ tended with satan and conquered.’ Asaph saith, ‘His agony took place after sixty years’, and others say that [the agony] was that of yobhabh, the son of zarh, of the children of esau (Genesis xxxvi. 33). And at [this] time a fifth king rose up in Egypt, pharaoh karimon ; [he reigned] four years. And at this time two sons came to ’armonJs, the canaanite, sedhom (sodom) and 'amora (gomorrah), and he built a city in the name of each of them, and he also built sa'ar (zoar) in the name of sa'ar, their mother. And there rose up also a sixth king in Egypt, pharaoh ’apintos; [he reigned] thirty and two years. This king sent to kasaronos, the Parthian king, and he brought the writings and the doctrine (religion ?) of the Chal¬ dees to Egypt. And ’apintos also built a city on the river Nile, and he named it ‘babhulon’, that is to say babel. And Asaph also saith that in the days of tarh the Egyptians learned Chaldeeism, and they made an image of gold in honour of kinos, the idol. After nahor [came] tarh his son. When he was seventy years old he begot abraham ; and all [the days of] his life was two hundred and seventy- five years. And in the fifth year of tarh a fifth king rose up in babhil, ’arpazadh ; [he reigned] eighteen years, and then the kingdom of babhil came to an end for seven years, until bilos (belus), the Assyrian, rebelled against the Chaldeans. And he made war upon them and upon the medes and conquered them, and he reigned over Assyria and babhil, and over the whole of ASIA, with the exception of India, for sixty and two years. And in the fifth year of tarh the seventh king reigned over EGYPT, pharaoh ’auronkos, for thirty and three years. And after this [king] the eighth king of Egypt, pharaoh simonos, reigned for twenty years. And](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
