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By [[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 13:00, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

By [[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 13:00, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

[[James Ussher]] (4 January 1581–21 March 1656) must surely rank with [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Plutarch]], [[Suetonius]], [[Tacitus]], [[Dio Cassius]], and [[Pliny the Elder]] and [[Pliny the Younger|Younger]] as an historian. ''[[The Annals of the World]],'' his magnum opus, is the result of a lifetime of travel, study, and research.

[[James Ussher]] (4 January 1581–21 March 1656) must surely rank with [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Plutarch]], [[Suetonius]], [[Tacitus]], [[Cassius Dio]], and [[Pliny the Elder]] and [[Pliny the Younger|Younger]] as an historian. ''[[The Annals of the World]],'' his magnum opus, is the result of a lifetime of travel, study, and research.

Ussher attempted to join the Bible to all other works of recorded history, and to present a unified treatment of the natural and political history of the world from Creation to 70 AD, the date of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the future [[Rome|Roman]] Emperor [[Titus]]. To do this, he relied heavily on ancient historical sources, and even traveled to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] region to examine as many primary sources as he could. No one since (perhaps) [[Flavius Josephus]] had attempted to join Biblical and extra-Biblical history as Ussher did.

Ussher attempted to join the Bible to all other works of recorded history, and to present a unified treatment of the natural and political history of the world from Creation to 70 AD, the date of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the future [[Rome|Roman]] Emperor [[Titus]]. To do this, he relied heavily on ancient historical sources, and even traveled to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] region to examine as many primary sources as he could. No one since (perhaps) [[Flavius Josephus]] had attempted to join Biblical and extra-Biblical history as Ussher did.