A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE Old Testament.

With the Names of the Authors, their Country, and Employments, Time of their Birth, Time when they Flourished, and time of their Death.

• MOSES, of the Tribe of Levi, Chief of the People of Israel, born in Aegypt in the 2433d Year of the World, 1571 Years before Jesus Christ; he brought the Israelites out of the Aegyptian Bondage in the Year 2513, and led them in the Wilderness for forty Years. He died in the Year 2553. 1451 Years before the Birth of Jesus Christ.
• JOSHUA, Son of Nun, Moses's Successor, born in the Year 2460, he succeeded Moses in the Year 2552; and governed the People till the Year 2570, died in the Year 2570, Aged 110 years.
• JOB, descended from Esau, believed to be as old, or older than Moses.
• SAMUEL, Prophet, and last Judge of the People of Israel, born in the Year 2849. he began to go∣vern the People in the Year 2888, and ruled them 21 years, died in the Year 2947.
• The AUTHORS of the Books of Judges and Ruth, who lived before the Captivity.
• DAVID, Son of Jesse, of the Tribe of Judah, King of Israel, born in the Year 2919, he reigned forty years, i. e. 7 years in Hebron, and 33 in Jerusalem; died in the year 2990, and 1014 years before Jesus Christ.
• GAD and NATHAN, Prophets, prophesied un∣der David and Solomon, from the Year 2980. till the Year 3020 circiter.
• SOLOMON, Son of David, King of Israel, reign∣ed from the Year 2990, till the Year 3030, died in the Year 3030.
• A HIJAH and IDDO, Prophets, under Solomon and Jeroboam.
• HOSEA, Son of Beeri, Prophesied under Uzziah, Jotham, &c. from the Year 3194, till towards the End of the next Age.
• JOEL, Prophet; some say, soon after Hosea's death; others, not till after the Captivity.
• ISAIAH, Son of Amos, of the Blood Royal, began to Prophesie in the 25th Year of Uzziah, in the Year 3219, and continued for an Age.
• AMOS, Herdsman of Tekoah near Bethlehem, began to Prophesie in the 24th Year of Uzziah; i. e. a∣bout the 3218th Year of the World, and continued 25 or 26 years.
• OBADIAH, Prophet. Time when he lived and prophesied very uncertain.
• JONAH, Son of Amittai of the Tribe of Zebu∣lun, Prophesied from the end of the 31st Century of the World, to the end of the 32d.
• MICAH, of the Tribe of Judah, began to Pro∣phesie in the Year 3257. under Jotham, and conti∣nued under Ahaz and Hezekiah, for about fifty years.
• HABBAKKUK, Prophet, sometime in Ma∣nasses's Reign, but uncertain.
• NAHUM, Prophet, Time uncertain.
• JEREMIAH, born near Jerusalem, of the Family of the Priests, began to Prophesie in the Year 3375, and continued 45 Years.
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• ... BARUCH, Scholar and Amanuenses to Jeremiah, Prophesied in Jeremiah's time, or rather after his death.
• DANIEL, Of the Blood Royal, Prophesied du∣ring the Captivity, from the Year 606, before Jesus Christ, i. e. the Year 3398. of the World, for al∣most 70 years.
• EZEKIEL, Son of Buzi the Priest, began to Pro∣phesie in the Year 3408, the fifth of the Captivity, and continued under Jeconiah 22 years.
• HAGGAI and ZECHARIAH Son of Bera∣chiah the Son of •…•…lde, Prophesied after the People returned; and began in the Year 3485. 519 years before the Birth of Jesus Christ.
• MALACHI, Prophet, after the two former.
• TOBIT, wrote after the Ten Tribes were carried away be Shalmanezer, in the Year 3283, 721 years before Jesus Christ.
• The Author of the Book of JUDITH uncertain. Time uncertain.
• EZRA, returned from Babylon to Jerusalem in the Year 3537.
• NEHEMIAH, the Author of the Book of Chro∣nicles, returned in the Year 3550. Lived in Ezra's time.
• The LXX. Interpreters, under Ptolomy Philadelphus, about the Year 3727,
• JESUS, Son of Sirach, under Ptolomy Euergetes, in the Year 3759.
• The uncertain Author of the first Book of MAC∣CABEES.
• JASON, Abridger of the Second.
• PHILO JUDAEUS, A Platonick Philosopher, under the Emperors Tiberius and Caius Caligula.
• JOSEPHUS, of the Priestly Family, descended from the Hasmonaeans, born the Year 37. after Jesus Christ; u•…•…er Vespasian, •…•…us and Domitian died in the Year 93 after Jesus Christ.
• JUSTUS, of Tiberias at the same time.