Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could, from historical documents and the Bible, figure out a real, honest-to-goodness timeline of our entire human existence? Doesn't it seem like that would be the most-welcomed and best-read book ever? Wouldn't a book like that be most excellent resource to use when speaking with those who want to argue over how old the world really is, when Jesus was actually born and when He died?

Well, the book not only exists but, in former times, was quoted extensively in Bible footnotes. Unavailable in book format for about 300 years, it has for the past four years undergone an extensive updating to modern English by Canadian husband/wife team Larry and Marion Pierce, complete with paragraph numbers, extensive footnoting (the original text already had 14,000 footnotes!), and historical maps. This is a remarkable text, beautifully bound and ready to bolster what you know of God and His world.

Accompanied by a computer CD-Rom that is filled with timelines, articles, maps, and more, these 960-gilt-edged pages are a valuable resource that will enhance you library for generations. It traces human life from the literal six-day creation through 70 A.D., causing you to become much more intimate with the very real people that populate the Holy Bible. There's something about giving Abraham and Noah a real historical date that makes them even more tangible. Ussher's literary masterpiece adds dimension to "antiquity" and helps the enthralled reader understand more about ancient times and the lives lived in it. The extensive index will help you locate people, places, and events, making this an excellent resource for your own research - and at an affordable price for this hardcover edition, $69.00.

Ussher's name is not so well known now, but his work was foundational in the 16th and 17th centuries - so much so that this work, originally penned in Latin in the 1650s, was extensively quoted in bibles produced from the 1700s until recent decades, that being before the church's apostate compromise with the demonic hoax of Darwinism. He was wholly devoted to the defense of Christianity and, in my opinion, it is no accident that his famous life's work resurfaces now to defend the faith again. Irish-born Ussher was well-respected during his era as a scholar and as a godly man. Entering Trinity College at age 13, Ussher earned his master's degree by age 18 and was ordained a deacon and priest in the Anglican Church at age 20. He received his doctor of divinity at age 26, and held the high position of Archbishop of Armagh. He also was twice appointed vice-chancellor of Trinity College. Upon his death in 1656, he was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Archbishop Ussher's work was mocked in the mid-19th century when evolutionary theories became popular because the meticulous researcher correlated the very real events of Genesis with secular history. This was untenable to those who were then, and still now, opting for the "millions of years" thinking. Yet, in preparing The Annals of the World Ussher utilized his great depth of understanding of the Bible plus extensive historical documents, some of which are lost to today's scholars. The work available to you includes a CD-ROM of Ussher's chronology of the world, full of colored charts, graphs, time lines and much more; more than 10,500 footnotes updated to reference works in the Loeb Classical Library by Harvard Press; and more than 2,500 citations from the Bible and the Apocrypha. This is an unparalleled work and a must-have for libraries and homes. This treasure will help you defend your faith.

Want to know why Julius Caesar was kidnapped in 75 A.D.? Have you ever been curious about the day the sun moved backwards for Hezekiah? Translated into English from the original Latin, The Annals of the World has the answers to these questions and many more. Solomon and his end-of-life repentance. Alexander the Great. Esther and Xerxes. The Olympics. Ptolemy. A real Hercules. Pompey. Mark Antony. Did Caesar break off part of the nose of Alexander the Great's corpse? Did the bite of an asp really kill Cleopatra? The famous and the infamous of history all find a home in Ussher's Annals. Did you know that Tiberius favored naming Jesus as "one of the gods," but the Roman Senate opposed this? Have you heard that in 39 AD, a horse was named priest? Year-by-year, paragraph-by-paragraph, Ussher recounts the history of the world in such a way that antiquity reads like modern headlines and, unfortunately, sometimes like Hollywood plots. Answers in Genesis distributes a limited-edited leather-bound version of this Master Books, 2003-copywrited treasure as well as other incentives. Consult their website for current offers.