The Patriarchs

What you'll find

• Adams' original wording, transcribed with his own spelling
• King James quotations checked word for word (3 in this book)
• Enlarged details of the chart, each with its caption and explanation
• The books Adams relied on, identified and compared with his text
• The complete panel 2, ready to print at large size (9 sheets, US Letter or A4, about 55 x 61 cm once assembled)

Print and study

You may print the pages for your own study, your family or your classroom, as often as you need. Corrections and improvements to this edition are sent free to buyers. Please do not share or resell the file.

Use it beside the chart itself: Panel 2 on adamschart.org lets you zoom into every scene the book explains.

Contents

1. The Patriarchs: Before the Floodp. 4
2. Five births, one linep. 5
3. Enoch walked with Godp. 6
4. Methuselah and his eldersp. 7
5. A life across generationsp. 8
6. Two lines of descentp. 9
7. A chronology chosenp. 10
8. Noah’s beginningp. 11
9. Reading Adams’ evidencep. 12
10. Earlier models for the toolsp. 13
11. Objects that speakp. 14
12. Rosetta and Moab: the recordp. 15
13. From pictures to lettersp. 16
14. What “after Bunsen” meansp. 17
15. The notice behind the lettersp. 18
16. A chain of traditionp. 19
17. Books, witnesses and traditionp. 20
18. Enoch in the marginsp. 21
19. Traditions beside the namesp. 22
20. Seth’s family and learningp. 23
21. Several reckonings of creationp. 24
22. The small print of the rulerp. 25
23. A world inferred from Scripturep. 26
24. Noah on the Apamean medalp. 27
25. Why history runs horizontallyp. 28
26. The opening of Genesisp. 29
27. Alexander’s symbolic replyp. 30
28. A message without a letterp. 31
29. Cities between the riversp. 32
30. Greece: memory and historyp. 33
31. Egypt in three periodsp. 34
32. Phoenicia and the seap. 35
33. Persia: names and successionp. 36
34. Rome and civic responsibilityp. 37
35. India and China: the record growsp. 38
36. Objects across the boundaryp. 39
37. The historians and their booksp. 40
38. Original readings: Cainite branch continuing from panel 1p. 41
39. Original readings: Enoch: Arabian traditionp. 42
40. Original readings: Methuselah: main bandp. 43
41. Original readings: Adam: number of childrenp. 44
42. Original readings: Inferred geographical world of the Hebrewsp. 45
43. Original readings: SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGYp. 46
44. Original readings: Historians: heading and three portraits on panel 2p. 47
45. Original readings: Moabite Stonep. 48
46. Original readings: Pictorial language: four emblemsp. 49
47. Original readings: Babylon & Assyriap. 50
48. Original readings: Phoeniciap. 51
49. Original readings: India & Chinap. 52
50. Original readings: Stream-of-time legend crossing from panel 1p. 53