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Encyclopedia: Sextus Julius Africanus
Sextus Julius Africanus, was a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century AD. He was probably born in Libya , Africa and may have served under Septimius Severus against the Osrhoenians in 19...
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The father of Christian chronography GELZER, Sextus Julius Africanus und die Byzantinische Chronographie (Leipzig, 1898); HARNACK, Geschichte der alt-christlichen Litteratur bis Eusebius, I (Leipzig, 1893), 507-513; SPITTA, Der Brief des Julius Africanus an Aristides (Halle, 1877)
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The best introduction to this production will be the following preface, as given in Migne:—Many men of learning thus far have been of opinion that the narrative by Africanus of events happening in Persia on Christ's birth, is a fragment of that famous work which Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian author of the...
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What little we know of life of Sextus Julius Africanus can be gleaned from scattered references to his surviving writings and from Eusebius’ Church History.[1] He is remembered primarily for his history of the world in five books (Chronology) and two letters, one to Aristides and the other to Origen.
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The following are some places associated with "Sextus Julius Africanus". Jerusalem (Israel) Sextus Julius Africanus. (2010). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Roman theologian Sextus Julius Africanus (ca. 160-240) claimed that the End would occur 6000 years after the Creation. He assumed that there were 5531 years between the Creation and the Resurrection, and thus expected the Second Coming to take place no later than 500 AD.
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Byzantine chronographer, noted for his surprisingly lucid interpretations of some Biblical questions; flourished in the first half of the third ...
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Sextus Julius Africanus , c.160-c.240, Christian historian. He wrote Chronologia, a history of the world from the creation to 221. Tying together the events...
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GELZER, Sextus Julius Africanus und die Byzantinische Chronographie (Leipzig, 1898); HARNACK, Geschichte der alt-christlichen Litteratur bis Eusebius, I (Leipzig, 1893), 507-513; SPITTA, Der Brief des Julius Africanus an Aristides (Halle, 1877).
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3. Sextus Julius Caesar I was a military tribune under Lucius Aemilius Paulus. He was proconsul in Liguria. In his time, 200 B.C. books instead of being written on one long sheet of scroll and rolled, were of many leaves bound together.
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