In all fairness, I suppose I should present a bit of Sir Laurence Gardner's
ramblings
from "Genesis of the Grail Kings". The following is a table made
from Gardner's
Adam-date of 3882 BC and cross checked with the 'begats' in Genesis, as well
as
Gardner's own BIBLICAL AGES OF THE EARLY PATRIARCHS table on page
342 of said book. Unfortunately, some discrepancies arise in Mr. Gardner's
assertion that it was Senusret I who stole Sarai (Sarah) from Abram (Abraham).
This is explained in more detail below in the asterized notations on the table.
(This data IS in a table, if you are looking to copy the information. That
is, you
will get table lines and a lot of html in Word or Wordpad, if you copy it.
If you would
like a copy of this table in a readable form, e-mail
me and I will send you the orginal
Wordpad document from which this page is made. Use 'Gardner Table' as subject.)
|
NAME
|
BORN (BC)
|
1ST SON BORN
|
AGE AT DEATH
|
DIED (BC)
|
|
ADAM
|
3882
|
130*
|
930
|
2952
|
|
SETH
|
3752
|
105
|
912
|
2840
|
|
ENOS
|
3647
|
90
|
905
|
2742
|
|
CAINAN
|
3557
|
70
|
910
|
2647
|
|
MAHALELEEL
|
3487
|
65
|
895
|
2592
|
|
JARED
|
3422
|
162
|
962
|
2460
|
|
ENOCH
|
3260
|
65
|
365**
|
2895
|
|
METHUSELAH
|
3195
|
187
|
969
|
2226
|
|
LAMECH
|
3008
|
182
|
777
|
2231
|
|
NOAH
|
2826
|
500
|
950***
|
1876
|
|
SHEM
|
2326
|
100
|
600
|
1726
|
|
ARPHAXAD
|
2226
|
35
|
438
|
1788
|
|
SALAH
|
2191
|
30
|
433
|
1758
|
|
EBER
|
2161
|
34
|
464
|
1697
|
|
PELEG
|
2127
|
30
|
239
|
1888
|
|
REU
|
2097
|
32
|
239
|
1858
|
|
SERUG
|
2065
|
30
|
230
|
1835
|
|
NAHOR
|
2035
|
29
|
148
|
1887
|
|
TERAH
|
2006
|
70
|
205
|
1801
|
|
ABRAM
|
1936
|
100
|
175
|
1761
|
* in the geneology of Genesis, Seth is counted as the first son of Adam.
Rumour has it that Cain
was the son of Enki/Samael (Genesis 4:1 "I have gotten a man from the
Lord") and was therefore
the 'first' hybrid Annunaki/human of biblical record.
** Enoch was 'ascended' to Heaven at the age of 365 years and did not die.
He 'walked with God'
and purportedly became the 'little Yahweh' known as Metatron.
*** The Flood occured when Noah was 600 years old, in 2226 - according to
this timeline. According to
the Bible, Noah also 'walked with God'. The story of Noah appears to be an
updated version of the
Sumerian Atrahasis and there he is known as Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim
also appears in the Epic
of Gilgamesh, called the son of Ubara-Tutu. Utnapishtim was said in
the epic to be a man of the
city of Shurrupak, which was not far from Ur.
**** Abraham left Haran at the age of 75, in 1861 - according to this time
line and what is recorded
in Genesis. Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born, in 1836. Between 1861 and
1836, Abraham
went into Egypt...which does NOT jibe with Gardner's claim that it was Senusret
I who took Sarai
from Abram. Senusret I ruled from 1971-1926 BC in Gardner's tables.
MORE THINGS TO PONDER...
|
Sir Leonard Wooley, digging at Ur, found a continuous silt layer in the digs there that dated the Flood to approximately 4000 BC. Supposing that the global cataclysm of The Flood was the result of the warming of the planet from the last days of the Ice Age circa 11,000 BC, the global flood came long before even 4000 BC and what Wooley found was the silt layer from a localized flooding of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley. There is no doubt in my mind that there was at one time a global flood, as it is spoken of in every mythology on the face of the earth. Unless, of course it became imposed on all native mythologies touched by the Jesuits and other Christian missionary groups...including Native Americans, MesoAmericans, Austrailan aboriginis and Asians. Be that as it may, there is geological evidence in many places all over the globe that there was such a catastrophic event. It just wasn't Noah's flood. Hanging tight, waiting for AMS dating and more info from Ballard's expedition in the Black Sea. My own calculations from Gardner's information (and making the assumption that Abraham was around 88 years of age when he went into Egypt, puts Adam's 'birthday' in the year 3972 - 90 years earlier. My assumptions are based on information in the Book of the Patriarchs from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Of course, that is not to say that Gardner's assumption that it was Senusret I who took Sarai from Abram is necessarily correct. There seems to be two versions of this story in Genesis, one in Chapter 12 and another in Chapter 20, where the 'king of Gerar' is referred to as Abimelech. According to the apocryphal Book of Jasher, Chapter 28, the story in Chapter 20 of Genesis is not about Abraham, but about his son Isaac, pulling the same duplicity on Abimelech (who is not an Egyptian pharoh) by saying that Rebecca is his sister and not his wife. This is purportedly the same ruse that Abraham used on the Pharoh with Sarai - who was both his sister and his wife. In Jasher 28, Abimelech is called the king of the Philistines. Like father, like son? Another interesting tidbit that Gardner points out in "Genesis
of the Grail Kings" is the apparent duplication between the line
of Cain and the line of Adam. In Genesis 4:16 begins the line of Cain,
whose wife bore him a son called Enoch. Unto Enoch was born Irad (Jared?)
and Irad begat Mehujael (Mahaleleel?) and Mehujael begat Methusael
(Methuselah?) and Methusael begat Lamech. Gardner identifies this
Lamech as a The only conclusion that can be made from all of this is - it's
inconclusive ;-) |
