vol. 37, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: From Adam To Noah: A Reconsideration Of The Antediluvian Patriarchs' Ages - R. K. Harrison* Jets 37/2 (June 1994) 161 168-

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FROM ADAM TO NOAH: A RECONSIDERATION
OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCHS' AGES -
R. K. HARRISON*
JETS 37/2 (June 1994) 161!168

Excerpt:
The narrative material of Gen 5:3!32, which catalogued the ages of the
principal descendants of Adam through the line of Seth, has long been a
matter for debate, if only because of the apparently exaggerated lifespans
attributed to the individuals listed there. Until the rise of rational Biblical
criticism in the eighteenth century the lengthy ages were accepted much
as they stood, out of deference to the sanctity of the divinely!revealed
Hebrew tradition. But when literary critics disregarded the concepts of
revelation and inspiration and began to treat the Hebrew Scriptures
as nothing more than a collection of national records, often of uncertain
provenance and riddled with mythology, a vastly different
set of interpretative criteria came to the forefront.
--from the first page of the article