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CONTENTS.
PREFACE,
NOTE BY THE EDITOR,
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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
The Subject recently come into Notice,
Former general Assent to the Bible Chronology,
Origin of recent Doubts on the Subject,
Modern Geological Discoveries,
Ethnology and Comparative Philology,
Systems of Chronology,
System of Bunsen,
System of Boeckh,
System of Rodier,
Call for a new Consideration of the Subject,
VIEW OF THE SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY,
The three Versions of the Pentateuch,
Period I. From the Creation to the Flood,
Period II. From the Flood to the Birth of Abraham,
Period III. From the Birth of Abraham to the Exodus,
Period IV. From the Exodus to the Foundation of the
Temple,
Period VI. From the Destruction of the Temple to the Birth of Christ,
Dates according to various Authors,
Period V. From the Foundation of the Temple to its
Destruction,
CHAPTER II. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY.
I. EGYPT.
Sources of our Knowledge of Egyptian Antiquities,
1. The Temples and Monuments,
2. Literary Remains,
3. Greek Historians,
I. Testimonies relating to Pre-historic Times,
The Accounts inconsistent with each other, Months reckoned as Years,.
Identity of Origin between the Greeks and Romans,
Practical Character of the Greeks,
The highest Date in Grecian History B. C. 776, The Siege of Troy mythical,
The alleged Date of it,
Its Value as an Era in Chronology,
The Greeks did not claim a remote Antiquity,
Date of the Founding of Rome uncertain,
Three principal Theories,
CHAPTER IV. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY.
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III. THE CHALDEANS.
Extravagant Claims of the Chaldeans,
BEROSUS, his History and Writings,
His Annals of an Antediluvian Kingdom,
The ten Kings,
The Account mythical,
Elements of true History contained in them,
Chaldean Measures of Time,
Earliest Historical Dynasty B. C. 2458,
CHAPTER V. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY.
IV. THE HINDUS.
Importance of the Discovery of the Sanskrit,
View of the Sanskrit Literature,
The Vedas,
The Upavedas, .
The Vedangas,
The Upangas,
This Literature has no historical Value,
Comparison between the Hindus and Greeks,
Origin of the Vedas,
Contents of the Vedas,
Antiquity of the Vedas,
The Cycle of Sixty borrowed,
Chronology dates only from the Christian Era,
The Materials of it unreliable,
Portions of it mythical,
The Shu-king, how compiled,
Its Destruction and Recovery,
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Earliest historical Date B. C. 2637,
CHAPTER VII. THE ARGUMENT FROM ETHNOLOGY.
Descent of all known Nations from Noah,
The tenth Chapter of Genesis,
Descendants of Shem,
Herodotus,
Pomponius Mela,
The Old Chronicle,
Eusebius,
Julius Africanus,
Castor,.
Practical Value of this Testimony,
The Accounts not to be taken literally,
The Accounts inconsistent with each other,
Months reckoned as Years,.
The Zodiac of Denderah,
Stobart's Wooden Tablets,
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CHAPTER III. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY.
II. GREECE AND ROME.
The highest Date in Grecian History B. C. 776,
The Siege of Troy mythical,
Extravagant Claims of the Chaldeans,.
The Upavedas,
CHAPTER VI. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY
V. THE CHINESE.
First Explorers of Chinese Literature,
Jesuit Missionaries,
Protestant Missionaries,
1. View of the Chinese Chronology,
The Ante-historic Period,
The Semi-historic Period,
The Historic Period,
2. How far is this Chronology reliable,
Views of Pauthier,
Views of Amiot,
Views of Williams,
Examination of the Elements of Computation,
The Chinese Year,
The Cycle of Sixty Years,
Statements of Rev. J. Chalmers,
Statements of Dr. Legge,