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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

10;

Christ in Old Testament, 6; Allegorical, 8; Cycles, 9; Jews as Custodians,

The Hebrew Bible, 11; Shanah, 14; Hebrew words, 15; Tower of Babel, 18;

Towers, 20; Arithmetic, 22; Months and Feasts, 27; House of the Lord, 29.

CHAPTER I.

JESUS IN MODERN HISTORY,

Sources of information, 33; Milman's History of Christianity, 35; Milman and

Gibbon, 38; Illustrations of Duality of Man, 43; Neander's Life of Christ, 49
;

Renan, 51; Strauss, 57.

CHAPTER II.

JESUS IN ANCIENT HISTORY.

Quotation from Josephus, 62; The Question of Forgery, 63; The Apocryphal Gos-

pels, 64; The Gospels, 66; The Birth, 69-73; Bethlehem and Nazareth, 69;

Flight to Egypt, 72; Orthodoxy, 78; The Genealogy, 81; The Forty-two

Generations, 85; Luke's Line, 91; The Family of Mary, 92; Female Line, 93.

NOTE.

If the reader will have patience, and study the third and fourth chap-
ters, he will find the remaining portions comparatively easy reading.

CHAPTER III.

JESUS IN CHRONOLOGY.

Necessity of a Chronology, 95; The Millennial Idea, 96; Scyfforth, 96; First Period

to Noah, 98; Numbers, 99; No. 9, 100; Numbering Names to Noah, 101;

Second Stretch of Dates to Exodus, 102'; The Adamic Phase, 103; The Cir-

cles, 104; Cycles, 105; Zodiacal System, 107; Calendar set back, 107; Date

of going into Egypt, 108; Chronology of Laban's house, 110; The Correction

of the Calendar at Jordan, 112; Third Period in Judges, 114; Saul, 116; To

Temple, 118; The Forty term, 118; The Numbering of Men, 119; Servitude,

123; Fourth Period, Kings, 125; Second Correction of Calendar, 127; Second

Numbering, 128; Second Lettering, 130; Chronology of Captivity, 131;

The Five Hundred and Ninety-four Sabbaths, 182; Building the Temple, 133;

Third Numberings, 136; Third Letterings, 136; Last Chronology, to Jesus,

138; Fourth Lettering, 140; The Last Numbering, 141; The Proof from the

Patriarchs, 143-145; Second List, 146; Third Computation, 148; The Fourth,

148: Another System, 149; Appendix, Sabbatic and Jubilee years, 150.