{"id":18849,"date":"2018-12-27T20:35:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=18849"},"modified":"2018-12-27T20:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:35:03","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-2-part-3-and-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2018\/12\/27\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-2-part-3-and-last\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 2 \u2013 part 3 and last"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to get back to Eutychius… This is more Old Testament stuff: Joshua.\u00a0 The invasion of the Israelites into Canaan is depicted in rather similar language to the Muslim invasion, doubtless intentionally.<\/em><\/p>\n

6. After the death of Moses,\u00a0there took command of the people Y\u016bsh\u0101\u2018 (29), son of N\u016bn, and held\u00a0it for thirty-one years.\u00a0 After crossing the Jordan, he besieged R\u012bha (30) for seven days.\u00a0 On the seventh day, the sons of Israel blew the trumpets around the city of R\u012bha with loud clamor.\u00a0 By the vehemence of their cries and the sounds of their trumpets the city walls collapsed and all the men, children and women who were in the city were killed.\u00a0 After conquering R\u012bha, he celebrated\u00a0the passover\u00a0in the desert of R\u012bha.\u00a0 Then he sent his army\u00a0against the city of \u2018\u0100n\u012b (31) and to Bayt II (32) to have news of the city.\u00a0 But the inhabitants of \u2018\u0100n\u012b moved against them and killed thirty-six of Y\u016bsh\u0101\u2018’s men.\u00a0 Then Y\u016bsha\u2018 sent an army of thirty thousand men against the city of \u2018\u0100n\u012b.\u00a0 Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, followed the soldiers secretly.\u00a0 The king of \u2018\u0100n\u012b went out with his men against the soldiers of Y\u016bsha\u2018.\u00a0 The sons of Israel engaged them in a long pursuit until they\u00a0had moved away\u00a0from the city.\u00a0 Y\u016bsha\u2018, then, with his men broke into the city of \u2018\u0100n\u012b, destroyed it and burned it, killing all the men and women who were there.\u00a0 Then he chased the king of \u2018\u0100n\u012b, killed\u00a0his men, took the king alive and ordered\u00a0him killed by making\u00a0his body hang on a cross.\u00a0 Yash\u016b\u2018 then went up with his soldiers to the mountains of Canaan.\u00a0 In the desert the sons of Israel had stopped practicing circumcision, but when they occupied the territories of the Jordan and surrounding regions and mingled with their peoples, God ordered Yash\u016b\u2018, son of N\u016bn, to prepare knives and circumcise the sons of Israel with them.\u00a0 He did as God had ordered.\u00a0 There is an Ethiopian tribe, the Bu\u011f\u0101hs (33), who still practice it today.\u00a0 He then wrote for the sons of Israel the second law with his blessings and curses (34).<\/p>\n

7. When the king of G\u012b\u2018\u016bn (35) heard of Y\u016bsha\u2018, he wrote to him asking him to make a covenant with him and sent him many gifts.\u00a0 Y\u016bsha\u2018 granted him his protection and confirmed him in his charge.\u00a0 When the king of \u016arashal\u012bm, named N\u012bs\u0101d\u016bq, the king of Gibr\u016bn, the king of Yarm\u016bth, the king of L\u0101kh\u012bs and the king of \u2018Aql\u016bn (36)\u00a0understood that the king of G\u012b\u2018\u016bn had put himself under the protection of Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of Nun, they gathered, moved against the city of G\u012b\u2018\u016bn and besieged it.\u00a0 The king of G\u012b\u2018\u016bn wrote to Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, informing him of the fact. Y\u016bsha\u2018 gathered an army, went out to fight them and\u00a0defeated them.\u00a0 [The kings] sheltered in the cities of \u2018Ar\u012bq\u0101 and Maf\u012bd\u0101 (37). God rained hail stones on them that killed them.\u00a0 The sun remained motionless for Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, without moving to the east or west, until God gave him victory over them and the five kings fled into the cave of a mountain where they hid (38).\u00a0 Y\u016bsha\u2018 took them out of the cave, killed them and had their bodies hung up. Then Y\u016bsha\u2018 left the city of Maf\u012bd\u0101\u00a0and\u00a0went to the city of Libna (39). He besieged it, took it and killed the king and all who were there. From the city of Libna he marched against the city of L\u0101kh\u012bs, conquered it and killed the king and all who were there.<\/p>\n

8. When the king of Ghazza became aware of the fact that Y\u016bsha\u2018 had besieged the city of L\u0101kh\u012bs, he went out with his soldiers to help the king of L\u0101h\u012bsh against Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn.\u00a0 But Y\u016bsha\u2018 won the victory over him and killed him along with his men.\u00a0 From L\u0101h\u012bsh Y\u016bsha\u2018\u00a0went to\u00a0the city of Aql\u016bn, laid siege to it, conquered it and killed the king along with all the inhabitants. Then he marched against the city of Hibrun, besieged it, took it and killed the king and all who were there. Then he went out against the city of Dib\u012br (40), besieged it, conquered it and killed the king and all who were there.\u00a0 When Y\u0101b\u012bn, king of H\u0101s\u016br (41), heard these things, he sent messengers to the king of Mar\u016bn (42), to the king of Shimr\u016bn (43) to the king of Akhsh\u0101f (44), to the king of Sayd\u0101 (45), to the king of ar-R\u0101ma, ai Muw\u0101biyy\u016bn, the Harr\u0101niyy\u016bn, the Aw\u0101biyy\u016bn, ai Qarr\u0101riyy\u016bn, ai Y\u0101b\u016bs\u0101niyy\u016bn, ai San\u0101biyy\u016bn (46) and all the inhabitants of the sea coast to gather together. The kings and all their men gathered and there were so many that they were as numerous as sand.\u00a0 Then they went out to fight Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, who moved against them and routed them, killed them and set fire to their tents, and cut the hocks\u00a0of their beasts and they were all pierced with the sword\u00a0as far as\u00a0the city of M\u0101r\u016bn (47) and Sayd\u0101, without anyone finding a way out. Then he took the kings and killed them. The kings that Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, killed occupying the territories were altogether thirty-five:\u00a0the king of the San\u0101biyy\u016bn, the king of the Muw\u0101biyy\u016bn, the king of the Kan\u2018\u0101niyy\u016bn, the king of the Qarr\u0101riyy\u016bn, the king of the Y\u0101b\u016bs\u0101niyy\u016bn, the king of the Aw\u0101niyy\u016bn, the king of the Girs\u0101niyy\u016bn, the king of \u016arashal\u012bm, the king of \u2018\u0100n\u012b, the king of S\u0101b\u0101 (48), which is in the vicinity of Bayt \u012al, the king of Hibr\u016bn, the king of Yarm\u016bt, the king of L\u0101kh\u012bsh, the king of \u2018Ad\u016bl\u0101m (49), the king of Gadar (50), the king of Dab\u012br , the king of H\u0101s\u012br (51), the king of Hurm\u0101 (52), the king of \u2018Ar\u0101d (53), the king of Libn\u0101, the king of L\u0101l\u0101m, the king of Abd\u0101d, the king of H\u0101fir (54), the king of F\u012bq (55), the king of Sad\u016bm (56), the king of Shimr\u016bn (57), the king of Barm\u016bth (58), the king of Haf\u012br (59), the king of Qadas (60), the king of R\u0101hib, the king of Mard\u016bth, the king of S\u012bq\u016bm, the king of B\u0101tind\u016bn (61), the king of \u011eabal al-\u011eal\u012bl (62) and the king of Kirs\u0101 (63), who were\u00a0exactly thirty-five (64). Y\u016bsha\u2018 fought for six years against kings and nations until he conquered and governed the countries.<\/p>\n

9. Later he divided the territories and countries among the sons of Israel for fourteen years, and he ruled the people for eleven years in peace and quiet.\u00a0 In his day there prophesied Il\u2018\u0101zar, son of Har\u016bn, and Finh\u0101s, son of Il\u2018\u0101z\u0101r, son of Har\u016bn.\u00a0 Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, died at the age of one hundred and ten years and was buried in the mountains of \u011eal’\u0101d (65) together with the flint knives which he used to circumcise the sons of Israel in \u011eal\u011fal (66).\u00a0 After the death of Y\u016bsha\u2018, son of N\u016bn, the\u00a0people were administered by the priest Finh\u0101s, son of Il\u2018\u0101z\u0101r, son of Har\u016bn.\u00a0 He was priest for twenty-five years.\u00a0 The Jews believe that the aforementioned Finh\u0101s, the priest, is the prophet Iliy\u0101, whom the Arabs call al-Khidr (67).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to get back to Eutychius… This is more Old Testament stuff: Joshua.\u00a0 The invasion of the Israelites into Canaan is depicted in rather similar language to the Muslim invasion, doubtless intentionally. 6. After the death of Moses,\u00a0there took command of the people Y\u016bsh\u0101\u2018 (29), son of N\u016bn, and held\u00a0it for thirty-one years.\u00a0 After crossing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672,676],"class_list":["post-18849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius","tag-eutychius-chapter-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}