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How could Adam and Eve live so long when people today barely make it to 100 years?
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S. H. Hooke, in Middle Eastern Mythology, explains the story of Adam and Eve in terms of Hebrew mythology based on earlier Mesopotamian mythology. Similarly, Leon R. Kass says in The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis that we can learn most from the story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity. Adam and Eve simply never existed. As for the biblical age of Adam, this was based on numerology, using the number 17, as were the ages attributed to most of the legendary ancestors. Adam is credited with living to 930 years, which corresponds to 7x9 + 51x17 [3x17x17]. The age of Adam, the first man in the Book of Genesis, is also equal to 30 X 30 + 30, matching the age (110) of Jacob, the last man in the Book of Genesis, which is equal to 10 X 10 + 10. Numerology played an important part in ancient religions.
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