The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah, with the Treatise on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 1W. Tegg, 1858 - History, Ancient |
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... flood , it is most probable that the civil and solar year were the same , and that 360 days were the exact measure of both . In that space of time the sun made one entire re- volution and it was easy and natural for the first ...
... flood , it is most probable that the civil and solar year were the same , and that 360 days were the exact measure of both . In that space of time the sun made one entire re- volution and it was easy and natural for the first ...
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... flood . At his death Belesis began his reign ; and Belesis being the same person with Nabonassar , from the beginning of his reign commenceth the famous astronomical era called by his name . The Nabonassarean year agrees exactly with ...
... flood . At his death Belesis began his reign ; and Belesis being the same person with Nabonassar , from the beginning of his reign commenceth the famous astronomical era called by his name . The Nabonassarean year agrees exactly with ...
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... flood . The flood began , he tells us , 9 on the seventeenth day of the second month ; prevailed without any sensible abatement for 150 days , 10 and then lodged the ark on Mount Ararat , on the seventeenth day of 1 Herod . lib . i ...
... flood . The flood began , he tells us , 9 on the seventeenth day of the second month ; prevailed without any sensible abatement for 150 days , 10 and then lodged the ark on Mount Ararat , on the seventeenth day of 1 Herod . lib . i ...
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... flood , came short of so many Julian years by above twenty - three years . And in like manner after the flood , all nations , till the era of Nabonassar , which begins exactly where my history is to end , computing by a year of 360 days ...
... flood , came short of so many Julian years by above twenty - three years . And in like manner after the flood , all nations , till the era of Nabonassar , which begins exactly where my history is to end , computing by a year of 360 days ...
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... flood , I have followed that account which the ancient writers are supposed to have taken from Ctesias . Herodotus differs much from it ; he imagines the1 Assyrian empire to have begun but 520 years before the Medes broke off their ...
... flood , I have followed that account which the ancient writers are supposed to have taken from Ctesias . Herodotus differs much from it ; he imagines the1 Assyrian empire to have begun but 520 years before the Medes broke off their ...
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