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Had a list of the blessed sons of God: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah of what were 1650 years Adam to the Noah flood ..... See these are the sons of God who took wives of the earth and corrupted the body were God said the blessed sons of God will not live more than 120 years after these , where as Abraham who was also a blessed son of God managed to live for 175 years many years later
Had a list of the blessed sons of God: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah of what were 1650 years Adam to the Noah flood ..... See these are the sons of God who took wives of the earth and corrupted the body were God said the blessed sons of God will not live more than 120 years after these , where as Abraham who was also a blessed son of God managed to live for 175 years many years later
The first several generations after the flood lived beyond 120 years - but you can see at life progressed, the life spans get shorter and shorter.
Interesting that Noah's son Shem was born 260 years before Abram - yet he was still on the earth when Abram [Abraham] died.
Had a list of the blessed sons of God: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah of what were 1650 years Adam to the Noah flood ..... See these are the sons of God who took wives of the earth and corrupted the body were God said the blessed sons of God will not live more than 120 years after these , where as Abraham who was also a blessed son of God managed to live for 175 years many years later
Adam
Eve
Cain
Seth
Abel
Enosh
Kenan
Michael
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Adah
Zillah
Noah
RESPONSE: You do realize, however, that the first seven books of the Bible are now recognized as a founding folktale written about 700-800 BC, and obviously fictional.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts Paperback – June 11, 2002 by Neil Asher Silberman (Author), Israel Finkelstein (Author)
“In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial evidence (or a telling lack of evidence) at digs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon suggests that many of the most famous stories in the Bible—the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, and David and Solomon’s vast empire—reflect the world of the later authors rather than actual historical facts.”
As noted by a reviewer on Salon.com[3] the approach and conclusions of The Bible Unearthed are not particularly new. Ze'ev Herzog, professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, wrote a cover story for Haaretz in 1999 in which he reached similar conclusions following the same methodology; Herzog noted also that some of these findings have been accepted by the majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists for years and even decades, even though they have only recently begun to make a dent in the awareness of the general public.[3]
RESPONSE: You do realize, however, that the first seven books of the Bible are now recognized as a founding folktale written about 700-800 BC, and obviously fictional.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts Paperback – June 11, 2002 by Neil Asher Silberman (Author), Israel Finkelstein (Author)
“In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial evidence (or a telling lack of evidence) at digs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon suggests that many of the most famous stories in the Bible—the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, and David and Solomon’s vast empire—reflect the world of the later authors rather than actual historical facts.”
As noted by a reviewer on Salon.com[3] the approach and conclusions of The Bible Unearthed are not particularly new. Ze'ev Herzog, professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, wrote a cover story for Haaretz in 1999 in which he reached similar conclusions following the same methodology; Herzog noted also that some of these findings have been accepted by the majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists for years and even decades, even though they have only recently begun to make a dent in the awareness of the general public.[3]
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