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I'm Looking for a Well Sourced Article on this Argument About Old Testament Genealogy
I remember reading a while back about how the ages in the Old Testaments first genealogy (leading up to Noah) were not representative of the actual ages of the individuals, but rather that this ...
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How do those who hold Genesis is in a mythic genre but the Gospels historical genre reconcile Luke 3's genealogy which matches Genesis?
There are some Christians who hold that genre is highly relevant in Biblical exegesis, and resolve the incompatibility of the, for examples, Genesis creation account, the start of humanity with Adam ...
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Repetition of "and he begat sons and daughters:"
While reading Genesis 5, we can read the development of human race from Adam to Noah, bridging the gap between the two.
During that passage, there's an expression mentioned often
(...) and he ...
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The chronology of Genesis in relation to language
Based on the following verses...
Genesis 10:5
(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) The Hamites
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If Adam is an allegorical character, which Bible character in messianic genealogy is the first real human?
Whenever a question is posed about Adam, Eve, or other characters and events described in the book of Genesis, inevitably some answers state that these events are allegorical. So I would like an ...
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Why does Genesis record only 10 names from Adam to Noah?
Genesis 5 (NIV)
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in
his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. After he begot
Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred ...
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In Theistic Evolution when do the genealogies in Genesis become real?
In Genesis there is the genealogy of Adam to Noah, then the account of the flood. After that is the genealogy of Noah to Abraham. The accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons then follow. ...
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What evidence is there that the genealogies in the early part of Genesis refer to tribes instead of individuals?
One method of interpreting the genealogies in the early parts of Genesis is as not referring to actual individuals, but rather to tribes, nations, and groups of people represented by the names of ...
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Why are we given details about what the descendants of Cain did? Is there special significance to these details?
Genesis 4 discusses the descendants of Cain:
"Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. To Enoch ...
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Why are the men of Genesis so old? Were the dating systems just different? Are all of these old ages supposed to have symbolic meaning? [duplicate]
Genesis 5:3-32 ESV spends a great deal of time describing the age of the men in Adam's lineage through Seth. Why are the men of Genesis so old? Were the dating systems just different? Are all of ...
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