Antiquities of the Jews
- Pages
- about 1983
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 36 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
BOOK I. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And
Thirty-Three Years. — From The Creation To The Death Of Isaac.
CHAPTER 1. The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The
Elements.
CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations
From Him To The Deluge.
CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Flood; And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In
An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar.
CHAPTER 5. After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies,
And Inhabited The Whole Earth.
CHAPTER 7. How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of The Land Of The
Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But Now Judea.
CHAPTER 8. That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence
Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back
Again.
CHAPTER 10. How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And
Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The Prey They
Had Gotten.
CHAPTER 11. How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His
Wrath Against Them For Their Sins.
CHAPTER 12. Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of
Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity.
CHAPTER 15. How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham
By Keturah.
CHAPTER 18. Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau And Jacob; Of Their
Nativity And Education.
CHAPTER 19. Concerning Jacob's Flight Into Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The
Fear He Was In Of His Brother.
BOOK II. Containing The Interval Of Two Hundred And Twenty Years.—From
The Death Of Isaac To The Exodus Out Of Egypt.
CHAPTER 1. How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons Divided Their Habitation;
And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob Canaan.
CHAPTER 2. How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's Sons, Was Envied By His
Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown His Future Happiness.
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