Published in 1844, this learned treatise tackles a puzzle that had divided scholars since the third century: the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint give different ages for the patriarchs before and after the Flood, and so different dates for Creation. Wallace weighs the texts, ancient chronologers and pagan traditions to fix the chronology from Creation to the Christian era.
A document of pre-Darwinian biblical chronology, of interest to historians of scholarship and belief. Download the free EPUB.