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The genealogy of Jesus Christ is clearly set out in the Bible,which lists all his ancestors right back to Adam, the firstman. These are highlighted in the chart on the following

panels, just beneath the black wavy line, which represents thestream of time.

Above that line are shown the lives of the other descendantsof Adam and Eve, which feature all the well-known charactersfrom the Book of Genesis. This runs to the life of Moses and theExodus from Egypt that led to the entry of the Hebrews to thePromised Land. By this time mankind had increased to suchnumbers that they are impossible to fit on the chart, so from thispoint only the kings of the Jewish kingdoms are shown,including Jesus’ two illustrious ancestors, King David and KingSolomon.The dating system used in this book takes as its starting-point

the traditional chronology of the Bible, believing that the Earthwas created some 6,000 years ago. The chronology wascalculated by Archbishop James Ussher. Ussher was Bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, atheologian of great repute, in the seventeenth century (hiscontemporary reputation being evidenced by the fact that he wasgive a state funeral on the orders of Oliver Cromwell). His famouswork, Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi originededucti (Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the firstorigins of the world) was published in two volumes, in 1650 and1654, and presented a chronological interpretation of Biblicalevents that won general acceptance. The publisher Thomas Guy(1644–1724), founder of the famous Guy’s Hospital in London,first began incorporating the Ussher chronology in his Bibles in1675, and in 1701 the Church of England also adopted Ussher’sframework for the Authorized Version (King James). Thus forcenturies the Ussher chronology has been the accepted,traditional timeline of the Bible, used in the famous Scofield Bibleof 1917 and featuring as recently as the 1970s in many GideonBibles. In the 1890s, Professor Edward Hull, Director of theGeological Survey of Ireland and Professor at the Royal Collegeof Science, Dublin, based his famous graphic Timechart Historyof the World upon Ussher’s chronology. Ussher’s method of calculating the date of Creation and of theother events narrated in the Bible was to begin with known datesin Greek and Roman history, then to work backwards addingtogether the ages of the patriarchs and kings, back to Adam andEve. His conclusion, taking account of the seasonal equinoxes(bearing in mind the ripeness of the fruit in the Garden of Eden),was that the Earth was created on the night preceding October 23,4004BC. Others had attempted this calculation before – datingback to the medieval English historian Bede, and including thefamous seventeenth century scientists Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) – and all identified a datevery close to Ussher’s. But Ussher’s chronology was perceived tobe accurate and won general acceptance. It is a testimony to Ussher’s dating that it has withstood sowell the claims of geological and other scientific discoveries inthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, it is stillregarded as a valuable framework, even when considered inrelative rather than absolute terms.

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God created the Heaven and the Earth" - Gen. i. 1.

LET THERE - - BE LIGHT. “And God created man in His own image . . . . male and female created He them.” - Gen i. 27.

The duration of the period from the Creation to the Flood is variously stated in the Hebrew, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan texts. The time given is shortest in the Samaritan, which makes it 1307 years. The Hebrew

enlarges this amount by nearly three centuries and a half, making the time 1656 years. The Septuagint further enlarges it by above six centuries more, estimating the whole period at 2262 years. There are no means

of deciding which of the three estimates is preferable; and it cannot be regarded as certain that the numbers set down by the original writer have been preserved intact in any of them. The Hebrews

The Chronological System of ARCHBISHOP USSHER, followed here, and upon which a largemajority of our Histories are founded, enables us to obtain a correct outline of the sequence ofevents, and of the relation of one period to another.

ABEL

CAINThe date of birth and the age of Cain (and his descendants) are unknown.

The first Martyr.

(date unknown.)

ADAM (AND EVE)

4004 B.C.

ENOCH, 2nd from Adam

IRAD 3rd

This mark (?) indicates that the date is unknown or uncertain.

MEHUJAEL 4th

As no dates or years aregiven in the line of CAIN,the reader can extend the

birth and life to suit.

Gt. Grandson of Adam

CAINAN 910 yrs

ENOS 905 yrs. 3679 B.C.

235 A.M.3679 B.C.

325 A.M.

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SETH 912 yrs.

"And begat sons and daughters." - Gen. V. 4.

GENESIS embraces 2369 years - from the Creation to the death of Joseph, 1635 B.C.

CHAP. I - The Creation of the heaven and the earth,

CHAP. II. - The Sabbath. The manner of Creation

CHAP. III - Adam and Eve's deception, transgression, The curse of labour and pain pronounced, and

Century Pillars Decades

ADAM 130 Gen. V.3

This represents the age of Adam when Seth was born, viz 130

130 A.M.

SETH 105Chap 5. 3v.

Gen V. 6.235 A.M.

ENOS 90 Gen. V.9 325 A.M.

The only four women whose namesare preserved in the records of the

world before the Flood, are -

EVE,ADAH and ZILLAH (Wives of Lamech)and NAAMAH (Daughter of Lamech).

Moses assigns no date to this Creation. How long after this “Beginning” before the advent of Man is unknown

probably estimated the length of the period before the Flood at something between thirteen and twenty-three centuries. Babylonians estimated it at 4320 centuries.

Anthropologists maintain that man must have existed upon the earth for 300 centuries at the least, and some extend the time to 1000 centuries.

The "First born." This "line" is all that is?

known of Cain and his descendants. - See Gen IV. 16 to 24.

About 129 A.M., perhaps.

years.930

Grandson

Knowledge prohibited. (vs. 19, 20), Naming(v. 8), The Garden of Eden. (v. 17). The tree ofits completion, and the order of Nature instituted.

(v. 21), Women Created. Marriage instituted.the creatures.

and fall.their expulsion from Paradise.

Son of Adam.

Seth is 105 when Enos is born.These lines show the genealogy of CHRIST.

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On the first day, God,having created the Heavenand the Earth, separatedthe light from the darknesson the first day.

On the second day, Hecreated the firmament, anddivided the waters whichwere under the firmamentfrom those which wereabove it.

On the third day, Hedivided the land from theseas; He also commandedthe Earth to bring forthgrass, herbs, and trees.

On the fourth day, Hecreated the sun, the moon,and the stars.

On the fifth day, Hecreated swimming andflying creatures.

On the sixth day, Hecreated beasts, cattle, andcreeping things; created andformed man after His ownimage and likeness, andblessed all His creatures.

On the seventh day, Godrested from all His work,and sanctified that day.

On the sixth day, God created Man in His own likeness, ‘ofthe dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils thebreath of life’. To the first man, Adam, God brought thecattle, beasts of the field and birds of the air so that he couldname them. God gave him a companion, the first woman,Eve, fashioned from one of Adam’s ribs, which God tookwhile Adam was asleep. Together, they were to look afterthe garden of Eden, and together they were given dominionover all the creatures of the earth. In the midst of the garden, however, God had planted the

tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve both

Right: God creates Manand the creatures of theEarth, over which mankindwill have dominion.

Left and below:The serpent seducesEve into tasting theforbidden fruit.Adam and Eve lose their innocenceand cover theirnakedness.

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THE PATRIARCHAL AGE.4004 B.C. to 1491 B.C.

“Seventh from Adam”“he was the father of all such as handlethe harp and organ.” Gen. IV. 21.

“he was the father of all such as dwell intents and have cattle.” - Gen. IV. 20.

Gt. Gt. Gt. Grandson of Adam.

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The Godliness and translation

“And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 19.According to the ancient Arabian tradition, JARED was the first of the line of SETH who broke through the command of ENOS, which prohibited intermarriages with the CAINITES, which tended greatly to

had 2wives

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687 A.M.

“And all the days that ADAM lived were NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, and he died.” - Gen. V. 5.

3609 B.C.395 A.M.

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“And (SETH) begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 7.and with JARED 470 years, and with ENOCH 308 years, and with METHUSELAH 243 years, and with LAMECH 56 years..

“And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 10. ENOS prohibited intermarriage with the Cainites - Arabian Tradition.

“And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 13.The Arabians have a tradition respecting CAINAN that he held universal empire, and was celebrated for his wisdom and miraculous powers.

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“And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 16.

3Gen. V. 25.

Gen. V. 21.Gen. V. 18.

Gen. V. 15.Gen. V. 12.

395 A.M.460 A.M. 622 A.M. 687 A.M.

Gen. IV. 22.

“A furbisher of every cutting instrument of copper and iron.”The “VULCAN” of the Greeks

The SECOND EPOCH lasts from the Flood to Abraham’s vocation.

The THIRD EPOCH lasts from Abraham’s vocation to the Passover.

These three first Epochs include the time of the Patriarchs.

Biblical history may be divided intosix Epochs:

The FIRST EPOCH lasts from theCreation to the Flood.

During the FIRST EPOCH God creates heaven and earth, creates light, the sun, the moon and stars, divides the land from the waters,

creates grass, herbs and trees, fishes, birds, and all living things including Man. Adam and Eve

are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Their sons areCain and Abel, and then Seth, the second Patriarch.

Enoch is of the sixth generation after Adam anddoes not die but is translated to heaven

At the close of the FIRST EPOCH God resolves to destroy every living creature on

account of the wickedness of men. Noah alone findsgrace in the eyes of the Lord

The FOURTH EPOCH lasts from the Passover to Saul’s accession to the throneand comprehends the time of the Judges.

The FIFTH EPOCH lasts from Saul’s accession to the end of the Captivity andcontains the reign of the Kings.

The SIXTH EPOCH lasts from the end of the Captivity to the birth of Jesus Christand includes the time of the Pontiffs.

knew God’s warning that, while they could eat the fruit of allthe other trees in Eden, they must not eat the fruit of thistree – ‘if you do, you shall surely die’. Eve gave into thesubtle serpent’s assurance that ‘your eyes will be opened,and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil’. When theyate, their eyes were opened to their nakedness, so theyclothed themselves with fig leaves.Seeing this, God cursed the serpent and expelled Adam

and Eve from Eden: from now on they would know disease,death and suffering and would have to work hard to thrive.Clad in animal skins, they set forth into a hostile world..In time, Eve bore Adam two sons – Abel, who became a

shepherd, and Cain, who grew crops. Abel set forth thefirstborn of his flock as an offering to the Lord, while Cainoffered the fruit of the ground. But when Cain’s offering wasrejected he was filled with fury and killed his brother. God’s

Left: Adam and Eveare expelled from theGarden of Eden – ‘SoHe drove out the man;and He placed at theeast of the garden ofEden cherubims, anda flaming swordwhich turned everyway, to keep the wayof the tree of life.’

Right: Cain and Abelmake sacrifice toGod; but Cain’soffering is rejected.

Below right: Abel iskilled by his brother.

vengeance was to curse Cain, whowould from now on be a fugitive;but he would not be killed, for Godput a mark upon him, warning thatwhoever killed this murderer wouldsuffer God’s punishment sevenfold. In time, Eve bore Adam another

son, whom they named Seth, and itwas through him that the holy linecontinued, the ancestors of JesusChrist.

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ENOCH

was the son of Jared and of theseventh generation from Adam viaSeth. A pious man, who spent his lifein the fellowship of the Lord, ‘walkingwith God’, he prophesied that Godwould bring all sinners to judgment.Enoch, like Elijah many centurieslater, did not die but was takendirectly to heaven by God.

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3130. B.C.874. A.M.

of ENOCH in Chap. V. 24. JUDE (v.14) refers to Enoch as a prophet.

And Enoch walked with God 365 years, “and begat sons and daughters.”- Gen. v. 22.“ And he was not, for God took him.”- v. 24.

the obliteration of every moral and religious principle.

The marriage of brother and sister was common, until prohibited by the law of Moses in 1491 B.C.

“ It is said of Seth and his posterity, that they were very good and virtuous, and very happy, without any considerable misfortunes for Seven generations.” - Josephus.

“ Seth and his posterity were the inventors of that particular sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order.”- Josephus.

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NOAH,

From Adam to Moses there are only Five intervening links (with Kohath, Six). From “Creation” to Moses’ death is 2553 years, so that through these Sixintervening links the history of Man could have been brought down by “Tradition” from "Creation" to Moses’ death, a period of 553 years.

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METHUSELAH talks with SETH 355 years, and with ENOS 453 years, and with CAINAN 548 yrs, and with MAHALALEEL 603 years, and with JARED 735 years, and with ENOCH 300 years.

talked with CAINAN 179 years, and with MAHALALEEL 234 years,

LAMECH is the first man on record who died a natural death before his father (five years before).

"And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 30.

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“ And begat sons and daughters.” - Gen. V. 26. “ And all the days

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‘And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ...’ (Genesis 6:13)

‘ It was to be made of Gopherwood, sealed with pitch

‘ Its length was to be 300 cubits‘ Its breadth was to be 50 cubits

‘ Its height was to be 30 cubits‘ There were to be three decks

with multiple compartments andthe only apertures in the structure

were to be a window and a door ‘ The window was to be set below

the roof by 1 cubit

During this time, the numbers of mankind grewgreatly, but God saw that man had becomewicked both in his deeds and in his heart, andthat the earth was corrupt. He therefore decidedupon the destruction of the whole of mankindand of all the other creatures He had created onthe earth save only Noah and his family and rep-resentative animals, for Noah had found grace inthe eyes of the Lord.

Noah was the son of Lamech and grandsonof Methuselah, who lived 969 years. Noah, wholived for 950 years, fathered three sons, Shem,Ham and Japheth, from whom the many peoplegroups of the earth were to come. So God commanded Noah to build an Ark.

And God told Noah to take onboard the Ark his own family,including his wife, sons and theirwives, together with a male and afemale of every living thing – fowls– cattle – ‘every creeping thing’ –together with food, seven of allclean beasts (fowls too) and twoeach of beasts that are not clean.(Genesis 6:19–21, 7:2–3)

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PANORAMA OF JERUSALEM AND THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST

Professor Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein(1848–1894)

During the nineteenth century, in the days before theinvention of motion pictures, panoramas (orcycloramas) became a popular form of

entertainment. Housed in circular buildings (rotundas), theseconsisted of huge paintings of dramatic scenes. The viewerstood in the center of the rotunda, with the picture all aroundhim, filling his vision with a breathtaking, all-encompassingspectacle. The paintings were seamless and lifelike, andguides provided appropriate commentary, pointing outspecific details of the events depicted.Most of the early panoramas were city scenes or

particularly impressive landscapes, while famous battles –such as Waterloo and Gettysburg – were ideal subjects. ThePanorama of Jerusalem and the Crucifixion of Jesus Christwas something different, however, and was to make a greatimpact. It was the brainchild of two Germans, Joseph Halderand Franz Joseph Hotop, who in 1885 commissioned an artistto undertake the monumental work of art.Their choice to mastermind this enterprise was Bruno

Piglhein, who had already built a reputation with a number ofreligious paintings. A pastelist, sculptor, painter of portraits,landscapes and animals, he had studied in Weimar, Dresdenand Munich. He was to be an influential figure in the Munichart world, becoming a professor and honorable associate ofthe Munich Academy. In 1892 he was also to becomepresident of the influential society of artists known as the

Above: Some of the creators of the panorama. Left to right, they are Block, Heine, Krieger, Piglhein and his wife, Halderand Hotop. Behind them is the section of the panorama to the left of Golgotha (page 21), not yet in its completed statebut demonstrating the impressive scale of the picture.

PANORAMA OF

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Publisher’s Note: The text on the following pages was included as part of the oringinalinformation associated with the panorama. The names given to some of the individuals at thescene of the crucifixion are not found in Scripture and are based on other historical sourcesor tradition.

Above: Piglhein interrupts his work to talk to Halder (left). The section of the canvashe is working on is on page 25. Below: One of the painting frames, which ran on acircular track. Piglhein is on the far right.

Munich Secession, the first of a series of radical artmovements leading the way towards Modernism.In the spring of 1885, Piglhein set out for the Holy Land

accompanied by Karl Hubert Frosch, a 39-year-old specialist inarchitectural painting, and Joseph Krieger (1848–1914), alandscape artist. They sketched and photographed the scenery,taking particular note of the colors and vegetation, littlechanged in some two thousand years, and planned out theessential topography they would depict. Their picture wouldfocus on the hill of Golgotha, with Jerusalem in thebackground, together with more distant features (which arelabeled in the Panorama). This was to be as accurate andrealistic as possible, and they did not neglect to sketch thelocal people, who yet dressed as they would have done in thetime of the New Testament. Their researches were aided byendorsements from the Archbishop of Munich and the Papalnuncio, which ensured the cooperation of the local authorities.Back in Munich, they began work in August, aided by two

more artists, Joseph Block (a 22-year-old student of Piglheinwho would later be a founding member of the MunichSecession group) and Adalbert Heine. Around the inside of thePanorama, 390 feet in circumference, platforms ran on rails,enabling the artists to reach the top of the canvas, which roseto almost 50 feet. To maintain level and perspective, moderntechnology enabled un precedented accuracy – they used aprojector to display the master sketch they had worked upfrom their photographs and drawings on to the canvas. The skyalone was a massive area to cover, consuming some thousandpounds of white and seventy of ultramarine, mixed andblended to many shades. Then came the real work: Frosch con -centrating on the architecture of the city, Krieger the bleak andbarren landscape, while Piglhein, overseeing the whole,painted the intimate details, each accurate to the referenceportraits and sketches they had made in Palestine.The Panorama, housed in its rotunda on Goethestrasse,

opened to the public on 30 May 1886 and was a tremendoussuccess, the critics noting with approval the sensitive lighting,which set the mood for such a somber scene. As art, it was atriumph; as a spectacle, a sensation; even Biblical scholarscould admire the accuracy of detail, based as it was on thelatest research, for which the artists had engaged Munich’sProfessor Vinzent M. Sattler. For three years the Panorama was on display in Munich. In

April 1889 it was removed to Berlin until the end of 1891,when it was taken to a rotunda in Prater Park, Vienna. Thereit met an untimely end, destroyed by fire on the night of April26/27, 1892. A number of copies were made and exhibited inLondon, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerlandand Australia. None could quite capture the quality of theoriginal and the unique drama it provided; however, the pagesin this book present a striking and authentic impression ofwhat must have been a sensational experience.

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THE HISTORIC PEAK OF MIZPAH

ON WHICH SAMUEL ERECTED THE

MONUMENTAL STONE “EBENEZER”

SHEPHERDS’ INN

Since the panorama was originally a cyclorama,embracing 360 degrees of view, there is noconventional beginning or end to this picture. Thetree to the left of this panel is a hardy pistaciatree, and behind is a clump of olive trees. Page 30of this panorama repeats these details, tocomplete the circuit of the cyclorama image.

The view is towards the south-east. On thedistant skyline, central to this panel, is the hill ofMizpah, on which sits the town of the same name,some four miles from Jerusalem. Mizpah isHebrew for ‘watchtower’, and one can see a great

distance from here – indeed to the shores of theMediterranean. It was here that Samuel erected amemorial to his great victory over the Philistinesnearby: ‘And then Samuel took a stone, and set itbetween Mizpah and Shen, and called the nameof it Ebenezer, saying Hitherto hath the Lordhelped us.’ (1 Samuel 7:12) Here also Saul wasannounced by Samuel as King of Israel.

In the foreground to the right is a shepherds’inn. Sheep farming was a mainstay of the ancienteconomy, and Jesus used sheep and the shepherd(left) allegorically in many of his parables.

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To the left, in the middle distance, is the villageof Emmaus, mentioned in Luke 24. Some fourmiles to the west of Jerusalem on the road toJoppa, this was the place where the risen Jesusappeared to two of His disciples. They did notrecognize Him until they dined together.

In the center ground is a pool of water, theremnant of a winter torrent that would haveflooded this rugged-sided watercourse. Aroundit, all is dry and arid as the sun beats down.

In the foreground to the right is a deep well.A woman is emerging with a full pitcher ofwater, while two others stand above her, theirjourney to the well interrupted by the dramataking place before them.

Right: Jesus appears to two of Hisfollowers on the road to Emmaus. They

discussed the dramatic events of thepast days and invited Jesus to dine

with them. Only then, as He brokebread, did they realize who this was.

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