Did People Live to Be 900 Years Old in The Bible?
October 9, 2024
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<p>Sources:
Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat - Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jöran Friberg - Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records
J. Klein - The ‘Bane’ of Humanity: A Lifespan of One Hundred and Twenty Years
Kenneth Kitchen - On the Reliability of the Old Testament
Meir Bar-Ilan - When Being Numerate Used to Mean Something Else
Nahum M. Sarna - Understanding Genesis
Duane L. Christensen - The Mysterious Numbers of the Ages of the Patriarchs
Craig Olson - How Old Was Father Abraham?
Kenneth A. Matthew - The New American Commentary: Genesis 1:1 - Genesis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPbZnRN8xQ&t=686s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">11:26</a>
R.R. Wilson - Genealogy and History in the Biblical World
W. E. Aufrecht in "Ascribe to the Lord"
Kenton Spark in "Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?"
Lloyd R. Bailey - Biblical Math as Heilsgeschichte?
Carol Hill - Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis
Richard Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature
Mark Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger - Mesopotamia and the Bible
Ben-Zion Wacholder - How Long did Abram Stay in Egypt? A Study in Hellenistic, Quran, and Rabbinic Chronology
Jeremy Hughes - Secrets of the Time</p>
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