Your opinion on some historians?

Question

I'd like to hear individual opinions on these theologians are or writings. Please list your opinion concerning their accuracies.

1) Strabo (64BC to 20AD)
2) Sibylline Oracles
3) Fragments of Berosus
4) Turin Papyri
5) Manetheo's Records
6) Chronicle of the Early Britons
7) Flavius Josephus (37-100AD)
8) Jasher translation by JH Parry
9) The Book of Enoch

I said theologians but meant historians.
I have theology on the brain tonight.

The Egyptian related sources I mentioned seem to hint at the idea that dynasties sometimes ran two at a time on occasion.

Geoffrey of Monmouth or Gildas-
Geoffrey translated the same work into Latin in 1136. The version I'm speaking of was translated from Welsh to English in 2002. This version at http://www.annomundi.com/history/chronicle_of_the_early_britons.pdf

Answer 1

4) Turin Papyri
All of them? There are quite a few. The most commonly known are the map, which dates to the reign of Ramses IV and the Royal Canon, dating to the reign of Ramses II. The Royal Canon was simply an attempt to list as many Egyptian kings as possible (with a few notable exceptions) going back to the earliest days of Egyptian history and beyond to the time when the gods ruled on earth. While not entirely accurate, it is a useful historic tool.

5) Manetho
The problem with Manetho is that we have no complete copy of his history, but only excerpts recorded in later sources. Manetho is the person who established the often problematic, but still used, system of dynasties in Egyptian history.


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Answer 2

5) As someone mentioned we don't have the original. But we do not he had a big impact on historians of antiquity and modern egyptologists. He was the first to set the reigns of pharoahs in dynasties.

However one thing to keep in mind, he wrote nearly 2000 years after the founding of the united kingdom of Egypt under Narmer/Menes. From that time to his there had been three intermediate periods of political chaos and a slew of invasions. No doubt he had access to records denied to us but at the same time many records of earlier time could have easily been lost over the long centuries.

6) Are you referring to Geoffrey of Monmouth or Gildas?

7) Turn-coat but an invaluable source of info

Answer 3

the only ones that I am familiar with is Josephus and the Chronicles of Early Britons. The latter I always thought that it is fact mixed with fiction and Josephus seemed to be a good observer but as with all historians can't help being biased. Josephus is the one who talks about Jesus which many prove that he actually existed, he had many first hand accounts of things that had happen and he wrote in detail, but as I said before sometimes biased.

Answer 4

I don't know or remember much of what I did know about these historians, but I didn't think anybody on here ever had theology on their minds...

Answer 5

They all delve.

Answer 6

it's BCE now