Historia Dynastiarum.

Dyn. I.

Lebanon and the rest of Inner Syria. Its name is the Chaldean-Nabataean, which is the language of the people of the mountains of Athur Assyria and the Sawad of Iraq.

The opinion of Jacob of Edessa, that it was Hebrew.

Jacob of Edessa says that the language remained Hebrew until the tongues were confounded in Babylon. ⁂

Peleg.

Peleg, son of Eber, sired Reu when he was, according to the Septuagint account, one hundred and thirty years old, and according to the Jewish account, thirty years old. His total days were three hundred and forty-nine years. In the one hundred and fortieth year

Distribution of the earth among the sons of Noah.

of Peleg, the earth was divided; that is, it underwent a second division among the children of Noah. The middle of the inhabited world—Palestine, Syria,

al. Samara

Athur, Samara, Babylon, Persia, and the Hijaz—fell to the sons of Shem. To the sons of Ham went the entirety of the south: Africa, the land of the Zanj, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, India, and Sindh. To the sons of Japheth went the north: Andalusia, the land of the Franks, the lands of the Greeks, the Slavs, the Bulgars, the Turks, and the Armenians. After the death of Peleg, strife broke out

Fortresses are built.

between his descendants and the descendants of his brother Joktan, and people began to construct fortresses. ⁂

Reu.

Reu, son of Peleg, sired Serug when he was, according to the Septuagint account, one hundred and thirty-two years old, and according to the Jewish account, thirty-two years old. His total days were three hundred and thirty-nine