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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![J3 was found in his hands made an [object of] fear for himself and worshipped it, as if forsooth by means of it he had been prevented from the going forth [which was] the cause of the disaster. And in that year moses warred with f am Alik (amalek). And he went up into the mountain in the third month and received the law and the judgements for Israel. And from the time when God said unto abraham, ‘Know well that thy seed shall be dwellerfs] and sojournerfs] in a country which is not theirs’, must be counted the four hundred and thirty years of the subjugation, as it is written in the book of exodus, and this also Paul testifieth, although in the first Book, genesis, four hundred years only are written. And from adam to the death of moses is three thousand eight hundred (or, four hundred) and fifty years, accord¬ ing to anianus the monk, and this computation agreeth with his. Accord¬ ing to the Septuagint, however, it is three thousand eight hundred (or, four hundred) and eighty-two years, and according to the Syrian and Hebrew [Books] it is two thousand four hundred and twenty [years], moses lived in Egypt forty years, and in midian forty years, and in the desert forty years.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
