Aventinus 66

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 66, 67 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 66. Of the Jews and Moses, how he led them in the wilderness forty years, how they were also led into the promised land by their chief Joshuah, who is called Jesus in Greek and Latin.

In the beginning of King Baier's regime, when the Jews were done with the king from Egypt and came through the Red Sea, they did great, powerful miracles in the desert and wild heathen...

[The Hebrews under Moses were in the desert from 1653 to 1613 BC, in the reigns of kings Ingram and Adalger, a century after Baier.

The bulk of this chapter is omitted, as it follows Exodus and Joshua, adding that Joshua judged Israel for 17 years, data not given in the Bible. My current estimate is that Joshua ruled from 1612 to 1579 BC, 33 years.]

And Paul reckons from Joshua's death to Samuel, or as some think from the departure of the Jews from Egypt to king David, who promised God and his heirs, the Jewish Kingdom in eternity, 450 years. According to St. Paul's first calculation, one must add the 111 years, that in the seventh book of the Bible were reckoned for bad years, and the Jews omit, saying that they are under the chief peoples years, must be set as the chief peoples year count of their administration: they make 410 years. To those add 40 years when Heli, a sequence of the Jews, was, you will find the count of St. Paul at once.

[By my calculation, from Joshua's death to Samuel is 1579 to 1067 BC, 512 years. I include 82 additional years between Joshua and the oppression of Naharain, for the judges Qenez and Zebul, described only in the 1st century book *Biblical Antiquities*. However Samson's 20 years in my opinion overlap with 20 of the 40 Philistine years, reducing my overall discrepancy to 62 years.]

## 67. How in Italy one brother drove out the other, how the Kingdom of Troy began.

When the oft mentioned king Baier ruled in German lands, there were two brothers named **Jasius** and **Dardanus** in Italy. Jasius was the younger who, because of his skill, his father, who also prevailed that he become royal in it, made as an king in the country. Dardanus his brother was the elder, he wanted to be king for his age. So if the matter was disagreed, they fought with each other over the regime and the royal name. And Dardanus was up to, killed his brother Jasius, he must therefore (as was the custom back then) vacate the country. He went and fled from Europe across the sea to Asia Minor to his cousin king **Atus**, who gave him an area where he went, there King Dardanus sat down with his people, the country named after him Dardania, as we call the Trojan kingdom. And he is the first king at Troy, he ruled 74 years, set ten fugitive feet, housed the remainder in Troy, his regime started in the 30th year of our King Baier, as one counts from the return of humans, from the first Deluge 828, from the beginning of the German Empire seven hundred less four (696) years.

[Jasius, as described earlier, had ruled Celtica since 1819 BC, and in Tuscania or Italy, in a personal union, since 1796 BC. He also seems to have briefly been on the throne in Argos, Greece, around 1771 BC, during the conflict with his brother Dardanus that began in 1779 BC when Io returned from Italy. Jasius was supported by King Sicileus in Hispania and Sicilia, Dardanus by Romanessos, prince of the Curetans south of the Tiber. In 1750 BC Dardanos found an opportunity to slay his rival Jasius himself, but was forced into exile for it, to Samothrace. It was 1728 BC, which was indeed the 30th year of King Baier's coronation after the German civil war, when Atus of Lydia, ie Luwia consented to Dardanus and his party colonizing the site of later Troy, as Dardania. However the leader of the Kempfers, Theur, also had to give consent as he actually controlled that area then, as described previously, and appearing in garbled Greek histories as Teukros (Teucer). Dardanus ruled Dardania from 1728 BC (1027 years after the Deluge, 671 years of the German Empire) to 1664 BC, only 64 years.

Despite discrepancies in Aventinus' reign lengths of German kings, his figure of 696 years seems an accurate count from the fall of the Tower until the founding of Troy, including the additional 25 years before Tuyscon founded Germany. His count from the Deluge is still missing the 200 years eliminated from the count when *Defloratio* altered the years between the Deluge and the fall of Babel, from 331 (as in Jubilees) to 131.]

And further king Dardanus gave up his claim, that he believed to have in Italy, to his cousin **Tyrrhenus**, the above-mentioned King Atus' son, they were both the Hispanic Hercules' great-grandsons. And Tyrrhenus took Italy for himself; where still the Lombardic sea is called in Latin and Greek, Mare Tyrrhenum. And on this King Dardanus, Berosus has ended his five books at this time, like Moses, stopping at the 2500th year.

[Tyrrhenus, son of Atus of Lydia, ruled Tyrrhenia or Italy after Coribantus, from 1716 BC to 1665 BC. *Defloratio*, which he calls Berosus, indeed ends here with the founding of Troy, and a continuation of the ancient Chronicle known as *Manethonian Supplement* begins, with the eras divided according to Egyptian Pharaohs rather than Mesopotamian rulers, but having a major gap in the text of over 200 years covering the Mycenean period; this gap probably existed since the 4th century BC, since it has affected the calculations of others before and since Jerome.

*Jubilees* indicates the death of Moses and entry into Canaan to have occured at the end of exactly fifty Jubilees, or Anno Mundi 2450, counting a Jubilee as 49 years. The figure here of 2500 years could explain alterations to the chronological figures in the Masoretic text of rabbi Akiva (c. AD 100), whereas those in the older Samaritan text correctly preserve the year of the Deluge as AM 1308 to agree with Jubilees, rather than AM 1656 of the Masoretic. Akiva may have been trying to demonstrate that the crossing of the River Jordan occurred after 50 fifty year Jubilees, or 2500 years.]