Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-28
logy as Historic Factor" and was as fol

| lows:
Archaeological research through Egypt
4 Palestine, the Valley of the Euphrates ant
| other eastern countries constantly supple
evidence that the biblical record of usages
persons and dynasties of the earliest periods
of human history is substantially correct.
No other record of authenticated antedi
| 1uvian history contains such internal evi
| dence of integrity and harmony in the re
cital.
| At the recent meeting of the British AS
| ISOLATION of Science at Birmingham, England
Sir William Dawson, the president, empha-
sized similar statement; and in the section
of anthropology Sir George Campbell its
president, declared ''that the Bible teaching
of the origin of man was the only firm
ground
Only ten years ago, when serving on the
executive committee of the same section, 1
found Mr.. Tyndall and others to be quite
impatient of discussion in the direction now
so emphatically endorsed.
The brief contribution which I offer at the
present session of the American Oriental So
ciety is designed to outline with sufficient
clearness the Hebrew genealogy historic
factor, using biblical data only.
The parallelisms of biblical and other rec
ords, supplemented by late discoveries, are
impressive through their endorsement of the
former, although their inherent correlations
and harmonies hardly need such extrinsic
support
The incidents of the first twenty-five CEN
turtles of human history lie within the grasp
of five human lives The value of such a
fact finds illustration through another paper
which 1 hold in my hand 1t is the original
manuscript of an address delivered by Rev.
James Beebee, of the Yale class of 1745 to
soldiers whom he was leading in Canada in
the old French and Indian war. His grand
daughter, now past ninety years of age, liv-
ing in Wallingford, Conn, and in good
health and rnamorv vuai1 rauarn barS hi m opJ
his recital of his grandfather's account of
the settlement of New England can bring to
us to-day an accurate traditional record of
those times, even if no written history had
been preserved.
During critical study of Old Testament
history, in order to formulate the historical
and scientific relations of its military and
battle incidents, I prepared schedule from
which select the following data
Adam was contemporary with eight generations
Noah was contemporary with all of these but
two, Seth and Enoch.
Both Noah Z, and shem were contemporary with
Lamech and Methuselah.
Lamech died five years before the flood when
Mundi; 1851, and Methuseah died four years later,
Ammo Mundi. 1856.
have had the facts of creation fifth hand from Adj
am, viz:
temporary, 243 and Lamech Sc years. -,
IiiE FL Methpselah, aged. saS. o95 years and
shem 81 rom Shem, aged 600, and Eber 464, to
Abram, his contemporary, $50 years. Isaac 30 years
and Jacob Is years.
IV-From Isaac, aged 1870, to Jacob, his contem-
porary. 100 years and Levi 80 years.
V.-Frorn Levi, aged 49, and Joseph, 10, to Ko-
hath, his contemporary, 11S years and Amram 40
years, and Jachobed, the mother of Moses.
Eber, great-grandson, and long contem-
pory with Shem, outlived six generations of
his descendants, viz: Peleg, 191 years; Rue. |
161 years: Major, 100 years; Terah, 104 |
years; and Abram, year; and was, for some |
years, the only surviving ancestor of Abram |
and Isaac. |
Thus traditional history developed in the |
family of Abram. |
Moses died at the age of 100, Ammo Mundi |
2, 553. The age of man shortened from that |
time, and the period known as that of di- |
vine revelation succeeded. The necessity |
for long overlapping lives no longer existed. |
Earth herself is now surrendering her buried |
treasures of fact to confirm the text of the |
later centuries