Original Historical Documents

Old Kingdom
Long Life Spans
Ancient Genealogies Encyclopedia
Noah's Ark
Shem ---> Was 98 at Flood
Was 100 at birth of --->
Arphaxad \|/
At 35 son Shelah \|/
At 30 son Eber \|/
At 34 son Peleg \|/
At 30 son Reu \|/
At 32 son Serug \|/
At 30 son Nahor \|/
at 29 son Terah
According to the Biblical record, Shem was 98 years old at the time of the Noachian Flood. At 100 years of age he had a son, Arphaxad, and lived after that 500 more years. [Genesis 11:10, 11] From the above chart we can calculate how many years after the Flood Abraham was born: 2+35+30+34+30+32+30+29+70= 292 years after the Flood Abraham was born. Since Abraham lived to be 175 years of age at the time he died. Therefore, 292+175= 467 after the Flood Abraham died. Saying it another way, Melchizedek survived Abraham by 33 years. It seems quite reasonable to deduce that Shem, after the Flood, became conscious of his calling as a son of Noah and survivor of the Flood to teach the people all he knew about the religion of the pre-flood patriarchs all the way back to Adam, since he possessed and passed on the `Toledoth' tablets recording the story we find today in the Book of Genesis. In his capacity as survivor he took on the functions of a priest, renamed himself in this new life as `Melchizedek' and that is why Abram, also of the lineage of Shem, when meeting his ancestor Shem/Melchizedek regarded him as the true Priest of God. [Genesis 14:18,19]
Terah ---> his 2 brothers: 1. Nahor 2. Haran ---> Haran's children: 1. Lot 2. Milcah 3. Iscah
father of:/|\\|/ wife Uz children: 1. Uz 2. Buz 3. Kemnel
Abram \|/ father of:/|\-> 1. Aram 2. Chesed 3. Hazo
his allies: 1. Mam-re 2. Eshcol 3. Aner 4. Pildash 5. Jidlaph 6. Bethuel
Chedorlaomer / Rephaim War in southern Bera
Amraphel subdued Zuzim Palestine valley Birsha
Arioch \ \ Emim of Siddim, Shinab
Tidal \ Horites Dead Sea. Shemeber
Palestine - land of the Canaanites Abram goes to Egypt returns In Palestine - now also Perizzites
marries marries Egyptian
Keturah
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Hagar ---> Ishmael ---> 1. Nebaioth, 2. Kedar, 3. Abdeel, 4. Mibsam, 5. Mishma, 6. Dumah, 7. Massa, 8. Hada, 9. Tema, 10. Jetur, 11. Naphish, 12. Kedemah
1. Zimran 2. Jokshan \|/ 3. Medan 4. Midian \|/ 5. Ishbak 6. Shuah
1. Sheba ---> 2. Dedan \|/ 1. Ephah
1. Asshurim 2. Epher
2. Letushim 3. Hanoch
3. Leummim 4. Abida
5. Eldaah
Notes and References

The alphabetic part sources are found in B. Cooper's, After the Flood'

A) To read about Nennius and `The Table of European Nations' see Nennius, `Historia Brittonum', written probably toward the end of the 8th century AD. Nennius copied his sources without editing so we could make of them what we would. His most important contributions are found in chapter 17 and 18 which records the origins of a considerable number of European nations.
B) Elbod/Elbodogus/Elvodogus/Elvodug/Elfoddw is known from `Annales Cambriae', late 8th century AD.
C) Sir Flinders Petrie's lecture on the overlooked or willfully ignored body of documentary historical writings can be read in his Neglected British History published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press as part of the `Proceedings of the British Academy', Vol. viii, pp. 1-28.
D) Geoffrey of Monmouth, the `Tysilio Chronicle' listed today as Jesus College MS LXI, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
E) Peter Roberts, `Chronicle of the Kings', 1811, a sole surviving copy is at the Bodleian Library under "T301". Please someone copy it by hand to preserve it. Manley Pope presented a poor account of it in his `A History of the Kings of Ancient Britain, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, 1862; in which he does not credit Peter Roberts. However see his notes pp. 155-216.
F) The OT biblical account brings home the significance of priestly functions and services in society from the time of the Patriarchs onward. This spiritual make up of the nations of the whole ancient Middle East and beyond also was present in ancient Egypt where also originally one God was worshipped, albeit called by different names by the officials of different temple precincts. See P. Renouf, `The Priestly Character of the Earliest Egyptian Civilization' in PSBA, Nov. 1889, p. 355-362.

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