More than just a book of history, this masterpiece is a work of history.Ī literary classic restored.

James Ussher's Annals of the World is a treasure trove of information and historical take-aways. Those who don't learn from the lessons of history, are destined to repeat it. With precise accuracy, Ussher gives us the true accounts of the people and events that shaped the world and contributed to the rise and fall of nations and ancient civilizations. Any reader will enjoy the human-interest stories from the original historical documents cited by Ussher.If you enjoy history, then you're going to love this fascinating survey of ancient world history! James Ussher's Annals of the World is a historical chronology of the ancient world from the beginning-of-time to 70 A.D. Universities, public and private schools, professors, scholars and pastors will find a treasure-trove of material previously unavailable. This is a reflection of the church’s compromise with Darwinism.Īs a historical work, Ussher’s Annals of the World is a must-have for libraries of all sizes. As evolutionary beliefs-especially the belief in long ages for the earth-took root in the 20th century, Ussher’s sound scholarship faded from Bibles. Ussher’s original citations have been checked against the latest textual scholarshipĬonsidered not only a literary classic, but also a valuable reference, The Annals of the World was so highly regarded for its preciseness that its time-line was included in the margins of many King James Bibles throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, reminding readers that the earth is only around 6,000 year old.Over 2,500 citations from the Bible and the Apocrypha.Over 10,500 footnotes have been updated to reference works in the Loeb Classical Library by Harvard Press.Includes CD-ROM of Ussher’s chronology of the world, full of colored charts, graphs, time lines and much, much more.Today, however, few Bible publishers include Ussher’s dates because they conflict with the popular belief in “millions of years,” which is based on evolutionary assumptions.Ī highly respected scholar and theologian, still widely studied today, Ussher carefully studied the books of the Bible and an impressive array of historical documents (many lost to time or no longer available for study) to produce the unparalleled academic work known as The Annals of the World. His chronology was included in various versions of the Bible from the early 1700s until very recently. A meticulous researcher and compiler, Ussher correlated the events in Genesis with secular human history. Mocked when evolutionary theories became vogue in the 19th century, Archbishop James Ussher was a well-respected and important scholar of ancient history during the early 17th century.

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James ussher the annals of the world