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when they had been taken captive and the enemies had captured their children and women. 9.17.5 When ambassadors came to him so that he might take money and ransom them, he chose not to trample upon the unfortunate, but taking provisions for the young men, he returned the captives and was entertained by a city 9.17.6 the temple of Argarizin, which is translated as mountain of the Most High; and from Melchizedek, who was a priest of God and king, he received gifts. When a famine occurred, Abraham departed to Egypt with his whole household and dwelt there, and the king of the Egyptians married his wife, as he said she was his sis- 9.17.7 ter. And he related further that he was not able to have relations with her and that it happened that his people and his house were being destroyed, and when he called his soothsayers, they said that the woman was not a widow; and so the king of the Egyptians recognized that she was the wife of Abraham and returned her to her 9.17.8 husband. And Abraham, living with the priests of the Egyptians in Heliopolis, taught them many things and introduced astrology and other subjects to them, saying that the Babylonians and he himself had discovered these things, but tracing their discovery back to Enoch, and that he was the first to discover astrology, not 9.17.9 the Egyptians. For he says that the Babylonians say Belus was born first, who is Cronus; and from him were born Belus and Chanaan, and this Chanaan begat the father of the Phoenicians, and of him was born Chum, who is called Asbolus by the Greeks, the father of the Ethiopians, and the brother of Mestraeim, the father of the Egyptians; and the Greeks say that Atlas discovered astrology, and that Atlas is the same as Enoch. And of Enoch was born a son, Methuselah, who learned everything through angels of God, and thus we also have learned.”

9.18.1 18. FROM ARTAPANUS CONCERNING THE SAME; FROM THE SAME WRITING OF POLYHISTOR

“But Artapanus says in his work on the Jews that the Jews were named Hermiouth, which, translated into the Greek language, is Jews; and they are called Hebrews from Abraham. He says that this man came with his whole household to Egypt to Pharethothes, the king of the Egyptians, and taught him astrology; and after remaining there for twenty years, he departed again to the regions of Syria; but of those who had come with him, many remained in Egypt 9.18.2 on account of the prosperity of the country. And in anonymous works we have found that Abraham traced his descent from the giants, and that these, dwelling in Babylonia, were destroyed by the gods for their impiety, but that one of them, Belus, escaping death, settled in Babylon, and having constructed a tower, lived in it, which was indeed named Belus after Belus its builder. And Abraham, having been taught the science of astrology, first came to Phoenicia and taught the Phoenicians astrology, and later came to Egypt.”

9.19.1 19. FROM MOLO CONCERNING THE SAME

“But Molo, who wrote the polemic against the Jews, says that after the flood the man who survived departed from Armenia with his sons, having been driven out of his own lands by the natives; and having traversed the 9.19.2 land between

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αἰχμαλωτισαμένων καὶ τῶν πολεμίων αἰχμαλωτίσαι τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκας. 9.17.5 πρέσβεων δὲ παραγενομένων πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅπως χρήματα λαβὼν ἀπολυτρώσῃ ταῦτα, μὴ προελέσθαι τοῖς δυστυχοῦσιν ἐπεμβαίνειν, ἀλλὰ τὰς τροφὰς λαβόντα τῶν νεανίσκων ἀποδοῦναι τὰ αἰχμάλωτα ξενισθῆναί τε αὐτὸν ὑπὸ πόλεως 9.17.6 ἱερὸν Ἀργαριζίν, ὃ εἶναι μεθερμηνευόμενον ὄρος ὑψίστου· παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Μελχισεδὲκ ἱερέως ὄντος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ βασιλεύοντος λαβεῖν δῶρα. λιμοῦ δὲ γενομένου τὸν Ἁβραὰμ ἀπαλλαγῆναι εἰς Αἴγυπτον πανοικίᾳ κἀκεῖ κατοικεῖν τήν τε γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων γῆμαι, φάντος αὐτοῦ ἀδελ9.17.7 φὴν εἶναι. περισσότερον δ' ἱστόρησεν ὅτι οὐκ ἠδύνατο αὐτῇ συγγενέσθαι καὶ ὅτι συνέβη φθείρεσθαι αὐτοῦ τὸν λαὸν καὶ τὸν οἶκον, μάντεις δὲ αὐτοῦ καλέσαντος τούτους φάναι μὴ εἶναι χήραν τὴν γυναῖκα· τὸν δὲ βασιλέα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων οὕτως ἐπιγνῶναι ὅτι γυνὴ ἦν τοῦ Ἁβραὰμ καὶ ἀποδοῦναι αὐτὴν τῷ 9.17.8 ἀνδρί. συζήσαντα δὲ τὸν Ἁβραὰμ ἐν Ἡλιουπόλει τοῖς Αἰγυπτίων ἱερεῦσι πολλὰ μεταδιδάξαι αὐτοὺς καὶ τὴν ἀστρολογίαν καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦτον αὐτοῖς εἰση γήσασθαι, φάμενον Βαβυλωνίους ταῦτα καὶ αὑτὸν εὑρηκέναι, τὴν δὲ εὕρεσιν αὐτῶν εἰς Ἐνὼχ ἀναπέμπειν, καὶ τοῦτον εὑρηκέναι πρῶτον τὴν ἀστρολογίαν, οὐκ 9.17.9 Αἰγυπτίους. Βαβυλωνίους γὰρ λέγειν πρῶτον γενέσθαι Βῆλον, ὃν εἶναι Κρόνον· ἐκ τούτου δὲ γενέσθαι Βῆλον καὶ Χαναάν, τοῦτον δὲ τὸν Χαναὰν γεννῆσαι τὸν πατέρα τῶν Φοινίκων, τούτου δὲ Χοὺμ υἱὸν γενέσθαι, ὃν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων λέγεσθαι Ἄσβολον, πατέρα δὲ Αἰθιόπων, ἀδελφὸν δὲ τοῦ Μεστραείμ, πατρὸς Αἰγυπτίων· Ἕλληνας δὲ λέγειν τὸν Ἄτλαντα εὑρηκέναι ἀστρολογίαν, εἶναι δὲτὸν Ἄτλαντα τὸν αὐτὸν καὶ Ἐνώχ· τοῦ δὲ Ἐνὼχ γενέσθαι υἱὸν Μαθουσάλαν,ὃν πάντα δι' ἀγγέλων θεοῦ γνῶναι καὶ ἡμᾶς οὕτως ἐπιγνῶναι.»

9.18.1 ιηʹ. ΑΡΤΑΠΑΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ· ΑΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΥΙΣΤΟΡΟΣ ΓΡΑΦΗΣ

«Ἀρτάπανος δέ φησιν ἐν τοῖς Ἰουδαϊκοῖς τοὺς μὲν Ἰουδαίους ὀνομάζεσθαιἙρμιούθ, ὃ εἶναι μεθερμηνευθὲν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλληνίδα φωνὴν Ἰουδαῖοι· καλεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτοὺς Ἑβραίους ἀπὸ Ἁβραάμου. τοῦτον δέ φησι πανοικίᾳ ἐλθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον πρὸς τὸν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων βασιλέα Φαρεθώθην καὶ τὴν ἀστρολογίαν αὐτὸν διδάξαι· μείναντα δὲ ἔτη ἐκεῖ εἴκοσι πάλιν εἰς τοὺς κατὰ Συρίαν ἀπαλλαγῆναι τόπους· τῶν δὲ τούτῳ συνελθόντων πολλοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καταμεῖναι 9.18.2 διὰ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τῆς χώρας. ἐν δὲ ἀδεσπότοις εὕρομεν τὸν Ἁβραὰμ ἀναφέροντα εἰς τοὺς γίγαντας, τούτους δὲ οἰκοῦντας ἐν τῇ Βαβυλωνίᾳ διὰ τὴν ἀσέβειαν ὑπὸ τῶν θεῶν ἀναιρεθῆναι, ὧν ἕνα Βῆλον ἐκφεύγοντα τὸν θάνατον ἐν Βαβυλῶνι κατοικῆσαι πύργον τε κατασκευάσαντα ἐν αὐτῷ διαιτᾶσθαι, ὃν δὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατασκευάσαντος Βήλου Βῆλον ὀνομασθῆναι. τὸν δὲ Ἅβραμον τὴν ἀστρολογικὴν ἐπιστήμην παιδευθέντα πρῶτον μὲν ἐλθεῖν εἰς Φοινίκην καὶ τοὺς Φοίνικας ἀστρολογίαν διδάξαι, ὕστερον δὲ εἰς Αἴγυπτον παραγενέσθαι.»

9.19.1 ιθʹ. ΜΟΛΩΝΟΣ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ «Ὁ δὲ τὴν συσκευὴν τὴν κατὰ Ἰουδαίων γράψας Μόλων μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν φησιν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρμενίας ἀπελθεῖν τὸν περιλειφθέντα ἄνθρωπον μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν, ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἐξελαυνόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων· διανύσαντα δὲ τὴν 9.19.2 μεταξὺ χώραν