The First 2,000 Years

From Adam to Abraham (The Thousand Years, Book 1)

By: W. Cleon Skousen

Narrated by: Adam B. Skousen

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

This classic work by W. Cleon Skousen is designed to make the study of the Bible an inspirational pleasure.

Hundreds of details about the early history of mankind had become entirely lost until the restoration of the gospel. These details about the first 2,000 years of human history are all to be found in this groundbreaking volume. We now know that Adam and Eve had two generations of children before Cain and Abel were born. The exact year of the Great Flood can now be calculated. Details about the golden age of Enoch are now available so we can better understand how the law of consecration works and how it eliminates poverty and crime. Many difficult questions can now be answered: Did the Patriarchs really live for hundreds of years? What about the incredible population growth in ancient times? How has the geography of the earth changed since ancient times? Why were Pagan religions so attractive to ancient peoples? And why did God abhor these Pagan religions so much? All of these enlightening revelations belong to the sweeping panorama of the first 2,000 years of human history.

©1953, 1997 The W Cleon Skousen Library (P)2022 The W Cleon Skousen Library

Amazing

This is a very informative book regarding, the first two millennia. I couldn’t stop, I finished it in two days. I’m excited to listen to the other two books.

Good reader

Adam Skousen has a great reading voice!

These books are considered "Latter-Day classics"
the audible virgins are a plus

Educational

I enjoyed this book! Very informative and educational. I can’t wait to read on the third thousand years.

Great Book. Okay Narration.

W. Cleon Skousen was a brilliant religious scholar. His inspired commentary & insights are among the best I've ever read or heard. Really helps me to know Father Adam & Mother Eve, Enoch, Moses & other prominent men & women of the Old Testament as actual people and not just biblical stories.
While Adam Skousen's narration was okay, I would have preferred someone with a slightly deeper voice to narrate. The only negative about the narration is that when Skousen would speak as a specific person (the Lord or any one else) he would try to change hos voice, usually slightly lower as a male but sometimes try to speak in a female voice. It sounded almost like a child trying to speak in his father's or mother's voice & was distracting. He doesn't have the range for that, I don't think that this book needs different voices for different speakers because it's not a fiction novel, it's very much nonfiction, it all actually happened. It would have been better of he had just used his own voice throughout the entire book. It was at times very distracting. Otherwise he did alright. I would lile to hear a different narrator though.

Brings great understanding and Appreciation of the Old Testament

This well written and fascinating account of the first 2000 years of the story of mankind represents a massive amount of research and the difficult task of creating meaning from snippets from many different scriptures and documented sources. Wonderfully organized and presented.

Profound, readable, hard to put it down.

I thought I had read this years ago but maybe not. So I’m enjoying the heck out of it now. It’s a page- turner, love this classic ancient, true story.

So informative!

All of it. I especially like the depth of research and explanation on the creation.

The first 2000 years. Loved the research documents, and the history of the first Bible prophets.

Over too soon. I wanted more I’m glad there are more books to follow. I will begin the next book soon.

Easy to follow. Very entertaining.

I loved how he pulled information from so many sources. It gave me a different perspective to the book of Genesis than before. I was simply enthralled.

This a great book!

This is a really good book about the history of the old testament. The final chapter about how the old testament relates to the atonement of Christ was the best chapter.