One History: The Story of Earth Told Only From Ancient Texts
Take the Babylonian tablets, Genesis, Enoch, the Quran, the Vedas, Hesiod and the Irish annals at their word, line them up, and one history falls out. This is that history, with the texts under every step.
It only claims what a text says. Where the texts disagree, it treats them as different sides of the same events. It is a reading of the sources, not a scholarly consensus. For the mainstream view, see "What scholars say" on each passage.
- 1. The world before this one
Before the first day · story date: before 12,900 years ago - 2. The war above
Before humans · story date: unknown ages - 3. The workers
The making of humans · story date: more than 432,000 years before the Flood - 4. The limits
Eden · story date: soon after the making - 5. The teachers
Before the Flood · kingship comes to Eridu, 432,000 years before the Flood (Berossus) - 6. The defection
The days of Jared · five generations before the Flood - 7. The age of giants
The last centuries before the Flood - 8. The reset
The Flood · story date: c. 3114–3102 BCE, when the Maya and Indian calendars both start a new age - 9. The division
After the Flood · c. 3000–1000 BCE - 10. The watch
Recorded history · c. 1000 BCE to 1054 CE - 11. The sentence ends
Now · seventy generations are up
Pushback and answers · Same time, far apart · Strange disasters
Questions people ask about One History
What is One History?
An eleven-chapter thought experiment that takes the Babylonian tablets, Genesis, Enoch, the Quran, the Vedas, Hesiod and the Irish annals at their word and lines them up into one story, from the world before this one to the present. Every chapter quotes the texts it rests on.
Is One History the scholarly view?
No. It only claims what a text says, and where texts disagree it treats them as different sides of the same events. It is a reading of the sources, not a scholarly consensus. For the mainstream view, each passage page has a 'What scholars say' section.
Which ancient texts does it use?
Among others: Genesis and other books of the Bible, 1 Enoch and Jubilees, the Babylonian Atrahasis and Enuma Elish, the Sumerian King List, Berossus, the Quran, Hesiod and Plato, the Popol Vuh, the Aztec Legend of the Suns and the Irish Book of Invasions.
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