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+ An alert reader pointed out that I had two different dates for the birth of Jacob. The problem has been corrected and it now looks like Abraham not only visited Egypt in 1504 BC in the second year of Pharaoh Thutmosis I, apparently the Pharethothes of Artapanus, but married Sarah, the sister of Thutmosis, the same year, raising the extraordinary possibility that the 518-year 16th Dynasty of Africanus was actually a line of Hebrew princes that began with Abraham and ended with the crowning of Saul in 986 BC.

+ I have found another version of the story of the battle of Abraham with Chedorlaomer in the so-called Pseudo-Eupolemus, this one identifying the city of Melchizedek with Salim, or Shechem, near Mount Gerizim, thus supporting my contention that the Temple of Solomon was the Bronze Age temple at Shechem.

+ Chapter Thirteen has been posted. Though not complete, it is far enough along to be useful in elucidating the nature of the relationship between the Hebrews and the Egyptians during the long years between the visit of Abraham to Egypt and the rise of Israelite kingship in 986 BC.

+ I have finally obtained a copy of Claude Schaeffer's Stratigraphie Comparée. I have been aware of this work since Immanuel Velikovsky mentioned it in Earth in Upheaval. Schaeffer's six catastrophes (which he ascribes to widespread earthquakes in Western Asia), as well as his realignments of the periods of the Bronze Age, have been added to the table in Chapter Eight. Needless to say, these events approximate the cometary approaches chronicled in Part I.

+ I have been working on the problem of King Arthur and the early kings of Britain. It seems clear that Arthur was a product of the 5th Century and not of the 6th, as some still believe despite the lack of the proper political environment for his actions. It also seems clear that the peculiar dragon-shaped comet observed at the installation of his father, Uther Pendragon, was our long returning Comet of Typhon and that Uther assumed the position of high king in the year 429, 107 years before the tree ring minimum of 536. Despite Baillie, it seems more probable that the latter date was synchronous with the flight of the British nobility to Cornwall, Wales, and Armorica after the leveling of the churches of Legions, York, and London, supposedly by the Saxons, though more likely as a secondary effect of the comet. Geoffrey of Monmouth's off-the-wall date of 542 for the death of Arthur appears to have resulted from confusion between the sack of Rome in 410 and the fall of Rome in 476, an error of 66 years. Whether this is somehow related to Geoffrey's mention of the supposed size of Arthur's units, 6666 men, is as yet unknown. It has also become obvious that all dates in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before 477 are off, most commonly by 28 years, so that the last year of Vortigern was 427 and not 455.

+ 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 been working on the supposed encounter of Leonardo Da Vinci with a comet in the East sometime around the year 1487. Though the chapter is not yet finished, it presents some interesting evidence that our comet had survived into the 15th Century.

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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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