Extant Fragments of the Chronography
Julius Africanus
Of Abraham.
About this work
Fragments from an ambitious universal chronicle coordinating biblical history with Greek, Egyptian, and Near Eastern chronology from creation to the author’s own era in a single framework.
- Author
- Julius Africanus
- Date
- c. AD 221
- Origin
- Palestine
- Genre
- Fragments
The original chronicle is lost and must be approached through excerpts preserved by later writers.
VIII.
Of Abraham.
From this rises the appellation