Julius Africanus: Five Books of the Chronography

Africanus’ Methods Up to the time of the Olympiads there is no certain history among the Greeks, all things before that date being confused, and in no way consistent with each other. But these Olympiads were thoroughly investigated by many, as the Greeks made up the records of their history not according to long spaces, but in periods of four years. … My plan will be as follows: Taking up […]

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Julius Africanus on the Genealogy of Jesus

For the priestly tribe of Levi, too, was allied with the kingly tribe of Juda, through the circumstance that Aaron married Elizabeth the sister of Nahshon, and that Eleazar again married the daughter of Phatiel, and begat children. … And for this reason the one traced the pedigree of Jacob the father of Joseph from David through Solomon; the other traced that of Heli also, though in a different way, […]

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