Book of the Bee

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THE NAMES OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS. 1 2 1 of Levi. Jo than \ Abdt, Elisha, Ananias, Zechariah, Hilkiah ; these were of the tribe of Judah. Isaac, Jacob; Jesus, Sambat (Sabbateus), Simon, Levi; these were of the tribe of Issachar. Judah, Joseph, Simon, Zechariah, Samuel, Shamli1 2; these were of the tribe of Zebulon. Sambat (Sabbateus), Zedekiah, Jacob, Isaac, Jesse, Matthias ; these were of the tribe of Gad. Theodosius, Jason, Joshua, John, Theodotus, Jothan3; these were of the tribe of Asher. Abraham, Theophilus, Arsam, Jason, Jere¬ miah, Daniel ; these were of the tribe of Dan. Jeremiah, Eliezer, Zechariah, [vAjd] Benaiah, Elisha, Dathi ; these were of the tribe of Naphtali. Samuel, Josephus, Judah, Jonathan, Dositheus, Caleb; these were of the tribe of Joseph. Isalus, John, Theodosius, Arsam, Abijah 4, Ezekiel ; these were of the tribe of Benjamin. After Ptolemy Philadelphus arose Ptolemy Euergetes ; (he reigned) 26 years 5. Ptolemy Philopator, 17 years. Ptolemy Epiphanes, 24 years. Ptolemy Philometor, 35 years. The time of the Maccabees extended to this (reign), and in it the old Covenant came to an end. Ptolemy Soter, 1 7 years 6. Ptolemy Alexander, 1 8 years 7. Ptolemy Dionysius, 30 years 8. THE YEARS OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS. Gaius Julius, 4 years. Augustus, 57 years. In the forty-third year of his reign our Lord Christ was born 9. 1 Brit. Mus. Add. 14,601, fol. 162 a, col. 2, and Vatican MS. Jonathan. 2 Brit. Mus. Add. 14,601, fol. 162 a, col. 2, and Vatican MS. Shalmi. 8 Brit. Mus. Add. 14,601 wrongly The Vatican MS. has also Jonathan. 4 Or, as pointed in the text, Ahbayd. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,601, fol. 162 a, col. 2, tOO 6 Lepsius, 25 years. 6 I. e. Ptolemy Soter II. Lepsius, 36 years. 7 See the notes in Lepsius, p. 9 of the Tables. 8 Lepsius, 29 years. 9 For the authorities and their opinions on this subject, see Clinton, Fasti Hellenici , vol. iii, p. 260. [II. 2.] r