From Adam to Jesus.qxp_Layout 1 11/21/16 10:31 AM Page AA Above that line are shown the lives of the other descendants of Adam and Eve, which feature all the well-known characters FROM from the Book of Genesis. This runs to the life of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt that led to the entry of the Hebrews to the Promised Land. By this time mankind had increased to such numbers that they are impossible to fit on the chart, so from this point only the kings of the Jewish kingdoms are shown, ADAM including Jesus’ two illustrious ancestors, King David and King Solomon. The dating system used in this book takes as its starting-point TO the traditional chronology of the Bible, believing that the Earth was created some 6,000 years ago. The chronology was calculated by Archbishop James Ussher. Ussher was Bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, a theologian of great repute, in the seventeenth century (his ESUS contemporary reputation being evidenced by the fact that he was J give a state funeral on the orders of Oliver Cromwell). His famous CREATION TO CRUCIFIXION work, Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world) was published in two volumes, in 1650 and 1654, and presented a chronological interpretation of Biblical events that won general acceptance. The publisher Thomas Guy (1644–1724), founder of the famous Guy’s Hospital in London, first began incorporating the Ussher chronology in his Bibles in 1675, and in 1701 the Church of England also adopted Ussher’s framework for the Authorized Version (King James). Thus for centuries the Ussher chronology has been the accepted, traditional timeline of the Bible, used in the famous Scofield Bible of 1917 and featuring as recently as the 1970s in many Gideon Bibles. In the 1890s, Professor Edward Hull, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland and Professor at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, based his famous graphic Timechart History of the World upon Ussher’s chronology. Ussher’s method of calculating the date of Creation and of the other events narrated in the Bible was to begin with known dates in Greek and Roman history, then to work backwards adding together the ages of the patriarchs and kings, back to Adam and Eve. His conclusion, taking account of the seasonal equinoxes (bearing in mind the ripeness of the fruit in the Garden of Eden), was that the Earth was created on the night preceding October 23, 4004BC. Others had attempted this calculation before – dating back to the medieval English historian Bede, and including the famous seventeenth century scientists Johannes Kepler (1571– 1630) and Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) – and all identified a date very close to Ussher’s. But Ussher’s chronology was perceived to be accurate and won general acceptance. he genealogy of Jesus Christ is clearly set out in the Bible, It is a testimony to Ussher’s dating that it has withstood so which lists all his ancestors right back to Adam, the first well the claims of geological and other scientific discoveries in Tman. These are highlighted in the chart on the following the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, it is still panels, just beneath the black wavy line, which represents the regarded as a valuable framework, even when considered in stream of time. relative rather than absolute terms. FROM ADAM TO JESUS From Adam to Jesus.qxp_Layout 1 11/21/16 10:32 AM Page 1 4004BC 3900BC 3800BC 3700BC God created the Heaven and the Earth" - Gen. i. 1. Moses assigns no date to this Creation. How long after this “Beginning” before the advent of Man is unknown LET THERE - - BE LIGHT. “And God created man in His own image . male and female created He them.” - Gen i. 27. The duration of the period from the Creation to the Flood is variously stated in the Hebrew, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan texts. The time given is shortest in the Samaritan, which makes it 1307 years. The Hebrew enlarges this amount by nearly three centuries and a half, making the time 1656 years. The Septuagint further enlarges it by above six centuries more, estimating the whole period at 2262 years. There are no means of deciding which of the three estimates is preferable; and it cannot be regarded as certain that the numbers set down by the original writer have been preserved intact in any of them. The Hebrews probably estimated the length of the period before the Flood at something between thirteen and twenty-three centuries. Babylonians estimated it at 4320 centuries. Anthropologists maintain that man must have existed upon the earth for 300 centuries at the least, and some extend the time to 1000 centuries. th MEHUJAEL 4 ? The Chronological System of ARCHBISHOP USSHER, followed here, and upon which a large majority of our Histories are founded, enables us to obtain a correct outline of the sequence of rd As no dates or years are IRAD 3 ? events, and of the relation of one period to another. given in the line of CAIN, the reader can extend the nd from Adam ENOCH, 2 ? birth and life to suit. ? Gt. Grandson of Adam CAIN The "First born." This "line" is all that is known of Cain and his descendants. - See Gen IV. 16 to 24. The date of birth and the age of Cain (and his descendants) are unknown. CAINAN 910 yrs About 129 A.M., perhaps. ABEL The first Martyr. 3679 B.C. T (date unknown.) This mark (?) indicates that the date is ENOS 905 yrs. Grandson 325 A.M. unknown or uncertain. ? ADAM (AND EVE) 930 years. 90 3679 B.C. SETH 912 yrs. Son of Adam. 235 A.M. 105 3874 B.C. CREATION 4004 B.C. 130 A.M. ADAM talked with SETH 800 years, and with ENOS 695 years, and with CAINAN 605 years, and with MAHALALEEL 535 years, and "And begat sons and daughters." - Gen. V. 4. “An On the first day, God, GENESIS embraces 2369 years - from the Creation to the death of Joseph, 1635 B.C. The only four women whose names are preserved in the records of the having created the Heaven CHAP. I - The Creation of the heaven and the earth, its completion, and the order of Nature instituted. world before the Flood, are - B CHAP. II. - The Sabbath. The manner of Creation (v. 8), The Garden of Eden. (v. 17). The tree of and the Earth, separated 100 Knowledge prohibited. (vs. 19, 20), Naming the creatures. EVE, (v. 21), Women Created. Marriage instituted. 2 3 T ADAH and ZILLAH the light from the darkness CHAP. III - Adam and Eve's deception, transgression, and fall. (Wives of Lamech) The curse of labour and pain pronounced, and their expulsion from Paradise. and NAAMAH Century on the first day. Pillars Decades (Daughter of Lamech). 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 90 80 70 605 0 On the second day, He SETH 105 created the firmament, and 4004 Gen. V.3 130 A.M. Gen V. 6. ENOS 90 CA ADAM 130 39 38 Gen.37 V.9 Chap 5. 3v. 235 A.M. 325 A.M. divided the waters which This represents the age of Adam when Seth was born, viz 130 These lines show the genealogy of CHRIST. were under the firmament Seth is 105 when Enos is born. from those which were above it. On the sixth day, God created Man in His own likeness, ‘of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the On the third day, He breath of life’. To the first man, Adam, God brought the divided the land from the cattle, beasts of the field and birds of the air so that he could seas; He also commanded name them. God gave him a companion, the first woman, the Earth to bring forth Eve, fashioned from one of Adam’s ribs, which God took grass, herbs, and trees. while Adam was asleep. Together, they were to look after the garden of Eden, and together they were given dominion On the fourth day, He over all the creatures of the earth. created the sun, the moon, In the midst of the garden, however, God had planted the and the stars. tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve both On the fifth day, He Left and below: created swimming and The serpent seduces flying creatures. Eve into tasting the forbidden fruit. On the sixth day, He Adam and Eve created beasts, cattle, and lose their innocence creeping things; created and and cover their formed man after His own nakedness. image and likeness, and blessed all His creatures. © Lebrecht Right: God creates Man On the seventh day, God and the creatures of the rested from all His work, Earth, over which mankind and sanctified that day. will have dominion. 1 CREATION RUNNING HEADLINE 1 From Adam to Jesus.qxp_Layout 1 11/21/16 10:32 AM Page 2 3600BC 3500BC 3400BC 3300BC 3200 B “A furbisher of every cutting There is a Book extant called the “BOOK OF EN th THE PATRIARCHAL AGE. wn TUBAL-CAIN 7 instrument of copper and iron.” “Was perhaps written by some devout Ch The “VULCAN” of the Greeks Many discoveries and inventions Ed. The first polygamist on record are ascribed to the mental activity 4004 B.C.