{"id":19158,"date":"2019-05-06T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=19158"},"modified":"2019-05-06T20:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:27:51","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2019\/05\/06\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 1 (part 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s carry on with Eutychius’ rewriting of the Old Testament.\u00a0 None of this is enormously interesting, but we, or rather I, have to trudge through it if we are to complete this translation of Eutychius.\u00a0 It seems that nobody will produce an English translation direct from the Arabic.\u00a0\u00a0So, as before, I am taking the Italian translation, running it through Google Translate, and making sense of what comes out.\u00a0 Interestingly it looks as if the Italian-to-English translation in Google has improved since I last used it in January.<\/em><\/p>\n

15. In the days of R\u0101gh\u016b there reigned the Queen of Sheba, founder of the city of Saba, for many years (60).\u00a0 After her, women continued to reign in the city of Saba, until the time of King Solomon, son of David.\u00a0 In the days of R\u0101gh\u016b there was king Q\u0101r\u016bn (61), who built the city of Uq\u012bn\u012bn.\u00a0 It is said that Q\u0101r\u016bn melted gold, making bricks with which he built the city of Uq\u012bn\u012bn.\u00a0 R\u0101gh\u016b was sixty-six years old when Sh\u0101lakh died, in the month of Adh\u0101r, or Baramh\u0101t (62), after having lived four hundred sixty years.\u00a0 R\u0101gh\u016b lived in all three hundred and thirty-nine years (63).\u00a0 At one hundred and thirty years Sh\u0101r\u016b\u2018 had N\u0101kh\u016br (64). Sh\u0101r\u016b\u2018 was sixty-eight years old when \u2018\u0100bir died in the month of K\u0101n\u016bn ath-Th\u0101n\u012b, or T\u016bbah (65), at the age of four hundred and sixty-four (66).\u00a0 Sh\u0101ru` was seventy-seven years old when F\u0101liq died in the month of Ayl\u016bl, or T\u016bt, at the age of three hundred and thirty-nine (67). Sh\u0101r\u016b\u2018 lived in all three hundred and thirty years (68).<\/p>\n

At seventy-nine N\u0101kh\u016br had T\u0101rih (69).\u00a0 In his day the giants multiplied, and there lived \u2018\u0100d (70), son of Aram, son of S\u0101m, son of Noah.\u00a0 Indeed in his time measures and weights were instituted, and also in his time the earth was shaken by a violent and fearful earthquake (71), which was the first in history.\u00a0 And since there were many worshipers of idols who sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons, God sent a stormy wind that like a whirlwind broke all the idols and cut down their niches, reducing them to a heap of stones in the shape of hills still visible today (72).\u00a0 When N\u0101kh\u016br was seventy-seven years old, R\u0101gh\u016b died in the month of N\u012bs\u0101n, or Barm\u016bdah, at the age of three hundred and thirty-nine (73).\u00a0 In his time there appeared a Persian man named Zaradasht (74) who founded the Sabaian religion.\u00a0 And there was in Persia a king called Tahm\u016brat (75).\u00a0 Some believe that a Greek named al-Y\u016bn\u0101n son of Iraqliy\u016bs, based in Ilyas, was the founder of the Sabaian religion; others believe he was from the city of “az-Zayt\u016bna”, built near Athens.\u00a0 The Greeks were the first to profess this doctrine and wrote many books on astrology and the motion of the universe.\u00a0 It is also said that the Sabaian religion was founded by one of those who had taken part in the construction of the tower of B\u0101bil.\u00a0 N\u0101kh\u016br lived in all two hundred and eight years (76).<\/p>\n

At the age of seventy T\u0101rih had Abraham.\u00a0 In his time the king of B\u0101bil was Nimr\u016bd (77), the giant.\u00a0 It is said that he was the first king to rule in B\u0101bil.\u00a0 He saw in the sky, in a cloud, something like a crown, and immediately summoned a metal-worker who modelled a crown and he placed it on his head.\u00a0 For this reason, people said: “He was given a crown from heaven”.\u00a0 It is said that he was the first to worship fire because he saw, \u00a0far to the east,\u00a0a fire coming out of the earth.\u00a0 Nimr\u016bd went there, worshipped it and placed a man there who remained at the service of the fire, throwing incense on it.\u00a0 From that time the magi began to worship\u00a0fire and prostrate themselves before it.\u00a0 The man whom Nimr\u016bd had placed at the service of the fire was called Andish\u0101n (78).\u00a0 Satan spoke to him from the belly of the fire telling him: “No one can serve the fire or learn my religion unless he has first slept with his mother, with his sister and with his daughter.”\u00a0 Andish\u0101n did as Satan had told him, and from that time the priests of the magi began to have relations with their mothers, their sisters and their daughters.\u00a0 This Andish\u0101n was the first to profess such a doctrine.\u00a0 Nimr\u016bd founded Adarb\u012b\u011f\u0101n, B\u0101bil, Nineveh, R\u0101sin and many [other] cities (79).\u00a0 Tarih lived in all two hundred and sixty-five years and died (80).\u00a0 From F\u0101liq to Abraham there had passed five hundred and forty-one years; from the flood to Abraham, a thousand and seventy-two years; from Adam to Abraham, three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight years.<\/p>\n

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Let’s carry on with Eutychius’ rewriting of the Old Testament.\u00a0 None of this is enormously interesting, but we, or rather I, have to trudge through it if we are to complete this translation of Eutychius.\u00a0 It seems that nobody will produce an English translation direct from the Arabic.\u00a0\u00a0So, as before, I am taking the Italian […]<\/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":[672,673],"class_list":["post-19158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius","tag-eutychius-chapter-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158","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=19158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}