Palmoni: an essay on the chronographical and numerical systems in use among the ancient Jews. To which is added, an appendix, containing an examination of the Assyrian, Egyptian, and other ancient chronographies etcLongmann, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 681 pages |
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... remarkable as they happen to come in our way - purposing , if our space permit , to give a Tabular Index of some of the principal cyclical numbers , at the end of the volume . The reader , who cares to pursue the enquiry , by the ...
... remarkable as they happen to come in our way - purposing , if our space permit , to give a Tabular Index of some of the principal cyclical numbers , at the end of the volume . The reader , who cares to pursue the enquiry , by the ...
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... remarkable manner , as will be shewn presently . It may be added that the places in which these texts occur , the * So also Solomon is reckoned the last of Bathsheba's children - 1 Chr . iii . 5 . one before the flood and the other ...
... remarkable manner , as will be shewn presently . It may be added that the places in which these texts occur , the * So also Solomon is reckoned the last of Bathsheba's children - 1 Chr . iii . 5 . one before the flood and the other ...
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... remarkable occurrence in the 70 weeks of Daniel . Now this period appears in Josephus sometimes as 3 years , and some- times as 3 years ; and , in due course , we shall see reason to think that it has been varied on this method - viz ...
... remarkable occurrence in the 70 weeks of Daniel . Now this period appears in Josephus sometimes as 3 years , and some- times as 3 years ; and , in due course , we shall see reason to think that it has been varied on this method - viz ...
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... remarkable feature , which indeed is not peculiar to the Samaritan , but is found in all the authorities . 68. They all agree in placing the birth of Abram in the 70th year of Terah . And there can be no mistake in this , not only on ...
... remarkable feature , which indeed is not peculiar to the Samaritan , but is found in all the authorities . 68. They all agree in placing the birth of Abram in the 70th year of Terah . And there can be no mistake in this , not only on ...
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... remarkable periods . = = 110. The periodic additions proper to Josephus make 900 and 700 1600 years , or the same amount as that of the solar years in the Hebrew ; so that the sum of the solar years in his first series is double that of ...
... remarkable periods . = = 110. The periodic additions proper to Josephus make 900 and 700 1600 years , or the same amount as that of the solar years in the Hebrew ; so that the sum of the solar years in his first series is double that of ...
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