THE JUDAIC LINEAGES
Series of
High-Priests
t o Z a d ok .
[Josephus, A. J.,
5,11, j j
s
Years. KJ
1. Abraham 100 or EG
2. Isaac 100 SO
200
I. n. in.
Z adok’s A aron’s Generations Generations
Parentage. Generations. Gersom-LiBNi. K ah a t-AM iN AD A B
[Josephus, A. J., 1 Chron. vii. 1-9, lCTmm. vii. 20,21. lOhron:vii. 22-24.
8,1, 3], 50-53 ; Ezra vii.
2-5.
(=71.)
1. Levi 100 30 1. Levi 1. Levi 1. Levi 1. [Levi]
2. Kahath 100 30 2. Kaathos 2. Kahath • 2. Gersom 2. Kahath
3. Amram 100 30 3. Amarames 8. Amram 3 . L ib ni 3 . A minadab
400 90
1. Moses 40 1. Aaron 30 1. A aron 30 1. A aron 30 1. (Jahath) 1. Korah 30
2. Joshua 40 2. Eleazares 30 2. E leazares 30 2. Eleasar 30 2. Simma ■ 2. Assir 30
3 . O th n ie l 40 3. Phineeses 30
4. Ehud 40 4. Abiezeres * 30 3. P hineeses 30 3. Pinehas 30 3. Joah 8. Elkana 30
5. Samgar 40 5. Bouki 30 4. Iosepos 30 4. Abisua 30 4. Iddo *' 4. Ebjassaph 30
6. Barak 40 6. Ozis 30 5. Bokkias 30 5. Eiiki 30 5.: Serali 5. Assir 30
7. Gideon 40 7. Dei 30
6.8. Jephtha 40 8. (Phineeses) 30 Iothamos 30 6. Usi 30 6. Jeathrai 6. Thahath 30
9. Simson 30 7. Serahja 40 9. Iokabes 7. Maralothos 30
30 .7. Uriel 30
1 0 . E l i 40 10. Akimelekos
[•30 8. Arophaios 30
8. Merajoth 30
8. Usija 30
11. Samuel, === Akias 5 9. Amarja 30 ------- -
Saul
¡■40 11. Abiatharos I 9. Akitobos 30 10. Ahitub 30 9. Saul 30
12. David 40 with Zadok
¡-30
10. Zadokos 30 11. Zadok 30' -------- 10. [Jonathan] 30
480 330 300 330 300
The practical result of which is, that all chronologers, by not perceiving the surplusage
due to these absurd generations of 40 years, have assigned about 160-170 years too much
between Solomon and Moses ; and ergo, the Exodus must descend from b. o. 1491, its date
in the English version, to b . c. 1 3 1 4 -2 2 , circa.
After studying the above Table, the reader may perhaps perceive with us several
things not generally known: —-
1st. — That the whole of this Jewish chronology is unhistorical; because it is not based
upon positive records of the number of years each personage lived, but it was fabricated,
long after their times, by semi-scientific, semi-literary, computators; whose
process was to assign impossible generations of 40 years to their country’s pre-historic
heroes; and then, having obtained a maximum-period in which the lives of such worthies
were thereby inclosed, these modern computators (probably about the 3d century
after c., when the Books were re-transcribed into the square-letter alphabet)
apportioned to each hero, in the anew-manipulated Hebrew Text, those irrecon-
cileable numerals that have come down to our time.
2d. — That, whether the genealogical catalogues be right or not, the chronology is a later
intercalation.
FROM A B R A H AM TO DAVID.
i t . T.
Generations Generations
Elkana-AMASAi. Merari-
1 Chron. vii. 25- Maheu.
28. 1 Chron.yi t
(—VII.) 29,30.
VI. v n .
H ema n ’s Parentage
1 to J e z e h a r . to A masai.
1 Chron. vii. 1 Chron. vii.
36-38. 33-36.
(= IH ,) S ,
vm. ix.
A s sa ph ’s Parent- E th a n ’s Parentage
to J a h a th.
1 Chron. vii.
39-43.
(=-n.)
age to Musi.
1 Chron. vii.
4£47.
N
D a v id ’s Parentage
to J u d ah .
Ruth iv. 18;
1 Chron. ii. 4-13 ;
Matih. i. 3-6;
Lulce iii. 32, 33.
1. [Levi] 1. Levi 1. Levi 1. [Levi] ; 1. Levi 1. Levi
2. Elkana 2. Merari . 2. Kahath 2. Elkana 2. Gersom 2. Merari
3. a ma H at (and) 3. Matceli 3. J e z e h a r 3. A m a s a i 3. ( J a h a t h ) 3. Musi
1. Ahimoth 30 1. Libni 1. Korah 30 1. Mahath 30 1. Simei 30 1. Maheli 30 1. Hezrom 30
2. Elkana 30 2. Simei 2. [Assir] - 30 2. Elkana 30 2. Sima 30 2. Samer 30 2. Bam 30
3. Zuph 30 3. E than 30 3. Elk.Zophai30 3. Usa 3. [Elkana] 30
3. Bani 30
4. Adaja 30
3. Aminadab 39
4. Thoah 4. Nahath 30 4. Simea * 4. Ebjassaph 30 (Thohu) [so 5. Serah 30
4. Amzi 30 4. Nahesson 30
5. Eliab 30 5. Hagija 5. Assir 39 5. Eliel
[-30
6. Ethni 30 5. Hilkia 30 5. Salma 30
6. Joram 30 6. Asaja 6. Thahath 30 (Elihu) 7. Malchija 30 6. Amazia 30
6. Boas- 30
7. Zeplianja 30
6. Jeroham 30 ,8. Baesaja 30 7. Hasabja 30
7. Elkana 30 *------
7. Elkana 30 9. Michael 39 8. Maluch 30 7. Obed 30
8. Samuel 30 ------ 8. Asarja 30 8. Samuel 30 10.. Simea 30 9. Abdi 30
. 9. Vasni 30 ----- 9. Joel 30 30 9: Joel 3011. Berechja 30 10. Kisi 30 8. Isai
10.---- . 30 ----- 10. [H ema n ] 3010. H ema n 30 12. A s sa ph 3011. E t h a n 30 9. D a vid 30
300 300 300 360 330 270
3d.— That, as said before, there are no recorded dates in the Jewish Scriptures that are
trustworthy ; that, it is we moderns who must make Hebrew chronology for the antique
Jews — who, until Rabbi Hillel, had not thought of doing it themselves; — and that,
in these restorations, we cease to tread upon historical ground so soon as we retrograde
to Solomon’s era, said to correspond to b . o . 1000. Beyond that cipher, Jewish chronology
is all conjecture, within a few approximate limitations.
Moses, or the Hebrews, being unmentioned upon Egyptian monuments of the 12th-17th
centuries b . c., and never alluded to by any extant writer who lived prior to the Septuagint
translation at Alexandria (commencing in the 3d century b . c.), there are no extraneous
aids, from sources alien to the Jewish books, through which any information, worthy of
historical acceptance, can be gathered elsewhere about him or them.
With these emphatic reservations, we are quite willing to consider Lepsius's computa-
tive synchronisms as not merely the most scientific but the only probable. His estimates
place the Jewish Exodus in the reign of Pharaoh Menephthes, of the XlXth dynasty, about
the year 1318 b . c . ; (557) or rather between the years 1314 and 1322 b . c . : if we have
understood our authority correctly: (558) to which we add the following comparative view
(557) Chronologie; p. 379, compared with pp. 335-337. (558) Vide Guddcn: Hand-book; 1849; p. 44.