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+ I have finally managed to comprehend the origin of the genealogy in Luke. It turns out to be the Phoenician equivalent of the ten antediluvian kings found in Manetho and in Genesis, with the addition of 18 earlier kings who very well may have lived prior to the tree-ring minimum of 3195 BC, making them the earliest known names of kings surviving to the present day. It is also becoming clear that the term Chaldees, as in "Ur of the Chaldees," refers not to the land of the Kaldu in southern Iraq but to the land where Khaldis (genitive: Khaldi) was worshipped in the region of Van in ancient Armenia, now southeastern Turkey.

+ I have now identified the Egyptian Nitocris with Semiramis, who turns out to have been the wife of Sargon the Great rather than the legendary Ninus. She was Rimush, the "son" of Sargon, of the Chronicle of the Single Monarchy. The 19th Century belief that the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of Egypt ran in parallel has been confirmed, Manetho's King Onnos being the legendary first husband of Semiramis, the Onnes of the legends. The 109-year Fifth Dynasty can now be placed somewhere between 2426 and 2315 BC with reasonable certainty, most likely between 2424 and 2315. Update, April 20, 2010: It turns out that Menthesouphis, the brother of Nitocris, appointed Una (Unas/Onnos) governor of Upper Egypt during his less than one-year reign, thus making the first year of Onnos 2329 BC and placing the entire Fifth Dynasty between the years 2421 and 2312.

+ I have been refining my Assyrian timeline. It looks like Shamshi-Adad I really did take the throne 641 years before Tiglath-Pileser I, as claimed by the latter. This same chapter contains a new side-by-side comparison of the gaps in the Hebrew timeline with those in the Assyrian timeline, reinforcing my contention that "Ham" (Hammurabi) and "Shem" (Samsu-iluna) were artificially made the sons of Noah (Menes) and suggesting that this kind of chronological extension through borrowing was a recurrent if not common practise in western Asia.

+ I have obtained a copy of Catastrophe, by David Keys. There is much useful information in this book about the extent and historical effects of the catastrophe of 535-536. Needless to say, his division of the possible causes of the event into three mutually exclusive categories—comet, meteor/asteroid, and volcano—is artificial, there having been elements of at least two and possibly all three of these categories in the actual global catastrophe. Keys appears to lean toward the volcanic explanation, which, no doubt, was the proximate cause of many of the early effects of the comet, which will be explored in Chapter Fifteen, on which I am currently working. The chapter on Da Vinci remains unfinished and will remain so until I have a better grasp of the nature of his relations with the Visconti-Sforza family and his involvement in their dispute with the pope.

+ I have adopted, from Srinivasa Raghavan and confirmed by Narahari Achar, the date of 3067 BC for the Kurukshetra War, which places it in the year following the death of Jared/Irad, the Egyptian Hercules, in 3068, thus strongly suggesting that the war among his sons was the same one recorded in the Mahabharata.

+ I am currently synthesizing the available information on Pope Joan based on the hypothetical appearance of the Comet of Typhon in 855, as well as other data related to its later appearances. Various, until now, completely unrelated elements are beginning to appear in tight little multivalent groups that include the Tarot deck, the Vatican librarian, Leonardo da Vinci, the Visconti family, John Wycliffe, Pope Joan, and the notion of a recurring incarnation of the Holy Ghost.

+ I continue to beat my head against the problem of King Minos, though I do seem to be making some progress. In particular, the defeat of Minos by Theseus appears to represent the transition from the Phoenician speaking (Linear A) New Palace Period to the Greek-speaking (Linear B) Mono Palace Period.

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Ancestors of Stephen E Franklin (Franklin [Frenkel], Schaff [Shevchinsky], Bloom [Henech], Hurwitz, and Cooper [Kuper] lines)―feel free to send any corrections or additions including intersections with historically significant events or just everyday interesting occurrences―a proper genealogy should be more than just names and dates

Please note the caveat at the top of the Table of Contents page―I do not claim to be perfect―I have posted my ongoing work here to, among other things, help ferret out any errors that have crept into it―nothing here has been done in malice

The descendants of David Geffen of Vilkomir are at Marjorie Goldberg's site

The ancestors of Morris Preissman may be found at Marc Sbar's site

Photos

My uncle Harry A Franklin's wedding picnic, Fairmount Park, 1917	"The Farm," Yaazor, Johnnycake Road, Baltimore County, 1920s. This photograph taken by my uncle, as well as the next one, appeared in an article on Yaazor in the Baltimore Jewish Times of June 29, 2007
Samuel, Rebecca, Nathan, and my father Harry Franklin, Philadelphia, late 1920s	My uncle Harry A Franklin, "Swimming Hole" (Rodbell's term), Patapsco River, Yaazor, Baltimore County, 1920s
My father Harry Franklin and Bella Weiss, sometime after 1917	Lilly Davidow's farm in Vineland, New Jersey
Rose Franklin and some of the orphan children at the Daughters of Hannah Orphanage and Day Nursery in Baltimore, 1928―please scroll down slightly	Tombstone of my great-grandmother Fannie Frankel (Feige Frenkel), 1926?
More photos of the Daughters of Hannah	Photos of various members of the Bloom family and other Geffen descendants at Marjorie Goldberg's site―this is a slow loader with a 56K modem
Photographs taken by my uncle Harry A Franklin at Guantanamo Bay and Caimanera in Cuba during World War I	Grave of Yeshayah ben Avraham Halevi Hurwitz, ancestor of Shmuel Halevi Hurwitz of Vievis
More photographs by Harry A Franklin in Maryland and elsewhere

 

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Annex of the Tholian Assembly