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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![twenty-seven years old. And after one year he took rapka (rebecca) to wife, and in his sixtieth year she conceived, and she went to melchisedek to inquire of the Lord concerning what she had conceived. And he said unto her, ‘There are two peoples in thy womb, and the one people shall be greater than the other’, viz. esau, who is ’adom (edom) from whom [sprang] the edomites, and Jacob from whom [sprang] the Israelites, abimelech was a friend to those of the house of Isaac, and he it was who in the year one hundred of [the life of] abraham made war; and the Bible calls him ‘King of ghadhar (gerar in Genesis xx. i) from the name of his city, and here [he is king] of the Philistines, because of the many peoples over whom he reigned. And in the days of Isaac the fifth king of the Assyrians rose up—’aris ; [he reigned] thirty years. And the fifteenth king of the Egyptians, set!s ; [he reigned] nineteen years. This was the first king of the four kings who were called ‘shepherds’. After isaac [came] Jacob his son. When he was eighty-two years old he begot levi ; all [the days of] his life were one hundred and forty-seven years. When he was seventy-seven years old ISAAC blessed him and sent him to harran. And in the tenth year of levi, Jacob went up to Isaac his father. In the third year of levi, Joseph was born, and in the twentieth year of levi, JOSEPH was sold, being seventeen years old. He was a slave for ten years and was in the prison house for three years, and [he stood] before pharaoh for thirty years, and he was in authority in EGYPT for eighty years, and he died at the age of one hundred and forty years. And after isaac died the children of esau were subject to moab and 'ammon, and ’Aram, and they came to war against Jacob and his sons in hebron ; and Jacob prevailed, and he smote esau with an arrow and killed him, and the children of esau were broken before the children of Jacob, and their allies fled. When Jacob was one hundred and thirty years old he went down to Egypt, in the second year of the famine. After Jacob [came] levi his son. When he was forty-seven years old he begot kahath ; all his life was one hundred and thirty and seven years. In his days the flood which [came] in the days of ’agogos took place, when bilos (belus) was reigning in Assyria ; and mapos (memphis) in Egypt was built. And stasikoros [13] (or, stikoros) brought acrobatic dancing and games into the world, for his bringing up (or, education) had been among women. And manos (humanos) the king displayed luxuriousness in his own person (?). And that fourth Shepherd king, ’apapos, reigned in EGYPT fourteen years. He it was who dreamed dreams and who made Joseph ruler, according to the histories of the Chaldeans, and it seemeth likely that the ‘shepherds’ were called ‘kings’ because of Joseph’s brethren. After levi [came] kahath (kohath) his son. When he was sixty years](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
