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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![after this [king] the ninth king of Egypt, ’arminos, reigned for twenty and seven years, and twenty years before ’abraham was born darmasuk (Damas¬ cus) was built by morfos, and josephus saith that fuz, the son of ’Aram, built it. After tarh (terah) [came] abraham his son. He was one hundred years old when he begot Isaac; all [the days of] his life were one hundred and seventy-five years. And when abraham was fifteen years of age he en¬ treated [n] God and drove away the ‘karkase’ (ravens ? locusts ?) which were destroying the country of the Chaldeans and eating up their crops. At this time bIlos (belus) died, and a second king rose up in Assyria, viz. his son ninos (ninus), [who reigned] for fifty and two years, and built nineveh. After that city rahbuth (rehoboth) and rasan and kalnai (cabah), that is to say, ’arbil, and r!sh 'ayna (ras 'ain), and salik (seleucia), were built. And Jerusalem also was built by melchisedek, the canaanite. And abraham burned the temple of idols which was in ur of the Chal¬ dees, and haran his brother went to quench the fire, and he was burned to death therein. And for this reason abraham, when he was sixty years old, fled to harran with tarh his father, and nahor his brother, and lot, the brother of haran, who was burnt to death; and he dwelt therein for fourteen years. And then he departed from his father from harran and came to the land of Canaan. And in his seventy-first year the war of kardl'mar (chedarlaomer) took place. And when he was eighty and five years old, that is to say in the first year of the promise concerning EGYPT, he begot ishmael by haghar. ishmael lived one hundred and thirty and seven years. And the fortieth year of the promise, reckoning from adam, was the year three thousand three hundred. And at that time shamIram (semiramis) the wife of ninos (ninus) reigned over the Assyrians forty-six (or, forty-five) years. And she built mounds because of the flood. And a tenth king rose up in Egypt, parandos, the theban ; he reigned forty and three years. And after him rose up in EGYPT the eleventh king, pharaoh panos. This king snatched from abraham his wife sara, and he returned her to him afterwards with gold, and silver, and stuffs, and sent him away from Egypt. And after him the twelfth king, pharaoh ’isokos, reigned over Egypt twenty-one years. And after him the thirteenth king, pharaoh sosonos, [reigned] forty-four years. And after him the fourteenth king, pharaoh tarkos (tarakos), [reigned] forty-four years. And after shamiram (semiramis) a fourth king reigned over the Assyrians, viz. zmaros, for thirty-eight years. And in his days rose up the first king of the krItaye (Cretans) [called] karis, who builded krit! (crete). After abraham [came] Isaac his son. When he was sixty years old he begot Jacob ; all the [days of] his life were one hundred and eighty years. And when he was fifteen years old his father offered him [as a] [12] sacri¬ fice. In his thirty-eighth year his mother sara died, being one hundred and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
