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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![old he begot 'amram ; all [the days of] his life were one hundred and thirty- three years. After kahath [came] 'amram his son. He was seventy-five years old when he begot moses in the three hundred and fiftieth year of the promise; all [the days of] his life were one hundred and thirty and seven years. And in his days mapros reigned in Egypt twelve years; and then tomothos (thothmes?) eighteen years; and then ’amonpathis (amenophis?) forty- three years. It was this king who began to strangle (i.e. drown) the chil¬ dren of the Hebrews in the Nile. After 'amram [came] moses his son. He ruled over the children of Israel when he was eighty years old, and he led the people in the wilderness forty years. When he was born he was cast into the river, and the daughter of ’amonpathis (amenophis ?), whose name was tremothisa, who is ra'osa (ra‘mos6) whom the Hebrews call ‘damaris’, the wife of kanpara, the king of map as (Memphis), found him and saved him from the waters, and brought him up as a son of hers. And when he was ten years old yanes and yambres taught him wisdom, as ’artamonis showeth in his Epistle; this [fact] is not written in the Book of the Law, but the Apostle PAUL (Acts vii. 22) mentioneth it. And in his twenty-second year pharaoh ’amonpathis began to compel the Hebrews to throw (i.e. cast or mould) bricks and to build the city of ’ARMOPOLis (sic) (hermopolis ?). And he also conquered the Cushites, and he took ra'osa, the daughter of soros (zoros ?) their king to wife. And the people were ascribing this victory to moses, and saying, ‘he hath taken this ra'osa to wife’. And because of this kanpara (?) was jealous of him, [because he wished to marry ra'osa, but] was unable to do so until damaris his wife was dead. Then he sent a certain khan6th!s to kill him. But moses prevailed and killed [14] this man, and fled into Arabia, to ra'u’il, the midianite. And when he was forty years old, he took to wife sepora (zipporah), the daughter of yathron (jethro) the son of ra'u’il, the midianite, the son of daran, the son of yakshan, the son of abraham by kentora his wife. The expositors say that yathron (jethro) is ra'u’il. And at this time a flood took place, the third, in thessaly in the days of dokalyon (deucalion) ; and a great conflagration in rush in the days of paraton; and the famous war of the chaldeans with the Phoenicians; and eunomius invented the art of signs (i.e. the alphabet ?); and menander invented comedy; and khyaron and ’asclepiadis [the art of] healing. And when moses was eighty years old, that is to say, in the four hundred and thirtieth year of the promise, he was commanded by God to take the Hebrews out from Egypt. And when the Hebrews had passed over in the middle of the sea on dry land, pharaoh psonos, who rose [as king] after ’amonpathis, and all his army were drowned in the sea of suph. Now when those Egyptians who had not sallied forth with pharaoh saw the destruction of those who had sallied forth, each one with the labour which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
