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William Hales

William Hales

William Hales (1747–1831) was an Irish clergyman, scholar, and scientific writer educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a fellow and professor of Hebrew. He published several works on Newtonian science and mathematics before becoming rector of Killeshandra in 1787. His most famous work, A New Analysis of Chronology (1809–1812), applied original sources to biblical chronology. He also wrote religious and literary critiques, suffered from depression later in life, and died in 1831.
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A New Analysis of Chronology and Geography, History and Prophecy

A New Analysis of Chronology and Geography, History and Prophecy

"The children of Aram planted the fertile country north of Babylonia, called Aram Naharaim (Aram Nahrin), or ‘Aram between the two rivers,’ the Euphrates and Tigris, thence called by the Greeks, Mesopotamia, Gen. xxiv. 10: and Paddan Aram, the level country of Aram, Gen. xxv. 20. This country of Aram is frequently rendered Syria in Scripture; Judges x. 6; Hosea xii. 12, &c.; which is not to be confounded with Palestine Syria; into which they afterwards spread themselves, still retaining their original name, of Ἀράμοι, or Arameans, noticed by Homer, Il. ii. 783." Here it is written that the Arameans were from Mesopotamia, that is Aram Naharaim. It also states that Aram is synonymous with Syria in Scripture. Furthermore, it mentions that when the Arameans spread to Palestine Syria, they retained their original name.