Iulius Africanus Chronographiae: The Extant Fragments

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Iulius Africanus has rightly been called the "Father of Christian Chronography". His world chronicle is one of the few works of Christian literature pioneering a new genre. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages mainly articulated their reflection on history in the form of the world chronicle. The work has not been preserved in its entirety; the extant fragments have to be laboriously pieced together from the works of later authors. To date, there has not been a critical edition of this material, and the edition in use today dates back nearly 200 years (J.M. Routh 1814). This new edition in the GCS series closes an old gap in the programme of this series - and at the same time marks a new beginning, because this is the first edition ever in this series to be published with an English translation. The edition establishes a completely new foundation for our knowledge of Early Christian historical thinking, and in addition provides an important component in our understanding of an important epoch, the "Imperial Crisis" of the 3rd century, in which the new world of Late Antiquity began to develop out of the Hellenic-Roman heritage. Preface Introduction 1. Iulius Africanus: The Man and his Work 2. The Chronographiae: Date and Place of Writing, Literary Character 3. The Chronological System 4. The Text and its Transmission 4.1. Eusebius 4.2. Chronicles from the Alexandrian Tradition 4.3. Chronicles from the Antiochene Tradition 4.4. Georgius Syncellus 4.5. The Logothete Chronicle and Related Texts 4.6. Oriental Authors 4.7. Minor Authors and Texts 5. Earlier Editions 6. Principles of the Edition 7. Bibliography Conspectus Siglorum Abbreviationes 1. Opera in apparatu adhibita 2. Editores et Emendatores 3. Cetera Iulius Africanus, Chronographiae Testimonia on the Life of Iulius Africanus T1 Africanus under Pertinax and Septimius Severus (AD 193) T2 Africanus' Mission on behalf of Nicopolis T3 Africanus under Gordian III (AD 238-244) T4 Africanus under Decius (AD 249-251) T5 Africanus as a Contemporary of Origen Testimonia on General Aspects of the Chronographiae T6 Chronological Overview T7 Jerome T8 Church Historians in Constantinople T9 Isidore of Seville T10 John Malalas T11 Photius T12 Suda T13 Michael Syrus Material from Books 1/2: From Adam to Moses F14 The Creation F15 The Fabricated Chronology of the Egyptians and the Chaldeans F16 The Generations from Adam to Abraham T17 Adam's Tomb F18 Seth, the Inventor of the Hebrew Alphabet F19 Enosh, called by the name of God F20 God's Immanence F21 Quotation from the Book of Enoch F22 The Years of Methuselah and the Names of the Sons of Cain F23 The Circumstances of the Flood F24 The Pagan Gods F25 From the Division of the Earth to Abraham's Migration F26 Abraham in Egypt, Lot's Land and the Dead Sea T27 The Toponym Gerar T28 The Chronology of Jacob's Life F29 Jacob's Tent F30 The Terebinth Tree in Shechem F31 Job, the Descendant of Esau T32 The Chronology of Joseph's Life F33 The Date of Joseph's Death Material from Book 3: From Moses to the First Olympiad F34 Synchronism of the Exodus and Ogygus F35 The Chronology from Adam to Samuel T36 Synchronism of Ehud and the Flood of Deucalion T37 The Family of Abimelech T38 Abdon the Judge T39 The Chronology after Joshua T40 The Chronology of the Judges and the One-year Rule of Shamgar T41 The Chronology from the Exodus to the Building of the Temple T42 The Date of the Building of the Temple F43 The Pre-History of Egypt F44 Mestrem, the Eponymous Father of the Egyptians T45 The Date of the Flood and the Date of Abraham F46 Dynasties of Egypt T47 King Amosis and Moses T48 Moses and Inachus T49 Chronology of the Assyrian Kingdom F50 The Kings of the Argives F51 The Rulers of the Sicyonians T52 From Aeneas to the Foundation of Rome F53 The Kings of Rome F54 The Rulers of the Athenians T55 The Chronology of the Floods among the Greeks F56 Atlas and Prometheus T57 The Years from Inachus to Cecrops F58 The Kings of the Lacedaemonians F59 The Kings of the Corinthians F60 The First Festival of Olympian Zeus T61 The Kings of Thebes F62 The Kings of the Medes F63 The Kings of the Lydians F64 The Date of the First Olympiad Material from Books 4/5: From the First Olympiad to the End of the Chronographiae F65 Victors in the Olympic Games F66 The Prophet Jonah T67 Pekahiah, King of Israel T68 Pekah, King of Israel T69 The End of the Northern Kingdom F70 Manasseh's Supplication and Liberation T71 The High Priest Hilkiah F72 King Jehoahaz and the First Tribute F73 The Kings of the Persians F74 Cyrus and the Samians T75 The Identification of Cambyses and Nebuchadnezzar II F76 The Chronology from Adam to the Babylonian Captivity T77 Daniel and the Captivity F78 The Seventy Weeks of Daniel F79 Ezra the Priest T80 Africanus as a Source for post-biblical Jewish History F81 The Beginning of the Peloponnesian War F82 The Kings of the Macedonians T83 From Adam to Seleucus I F84 The Jews under Greek Domination F85 Jonathan, Simon's son, the High Priest F86 The Ptolemies F87 The Father of Herod T88 Africanus and the Archive of Edessa F89 Herod and Cleopatra F90 Omissions in Jesus' Genealogy T91 The Arrival of the Magi T92 The Date of the Incarnation F93 The Passion and Resurrection of the Savior F94 The Millennialist Framework of History F95 John the Apostle in Ephesus F96 Abgar VIII, King of Edessa F97 Clement of Alexandria F98 Africanus' Journey to Alexandria T99 The End of the Chronographiae F100 Final Doxology Indices 1. Index textuum adhibitorum et locorum citatorum 2. Index nominum propriorum 3. Comparatio numerorum Appendix: The Chronological System