What languages were spoken by Adam and Eve?

Answer 1

While Adam and Eve are mentioned in The Bible, it is perhaps best to think of them as the first man and woman.

We know that the first man and woman originated somewhere in Palestine well before the Greek, Roman or British Empires came into being.

Thus whatever language Adam and Eve spoke, it would be very unlikely to have been English, Greek or Latin. It is known what language Adam and Eve spoke from Anna Katharina Emmerick:

The first tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Shem, and Noah, was different, and it is now extant only in isolated dialects. Its first pure offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongue of India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages, words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my native place. The book that I see in modern Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, is written in that language.

It is known that before Babel, all of the world spoke one unified protoindoeuropean language. Most languages had not yet been created in the time of Adam and Eve because this process did not start till the time of the Tower of Babel, and many of the languages we know today did not exist even at the time of the Tower of Babel because they developed later as people spread out on the earth. Though Adam and Eve's language is never mentioned in the bible, the first half of the scriptures are known as the Hebrew Testament. The language which their confused descendants spoke would most likely have been some form of Semitic tongue.

Answer 2

Proto-Semitic language was the ancestor of the Hebrew language. Hebrew is one of the world's oldest languages. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of the creation of mankind, and of the ancestors of the Hebrew people. At any rate, Adam's and Eve's language was the first language in the world. According to the eleventh chapter of the book of Genesis, one language was spoken until the building of the Tower of Babel. One of the suggested dating methods for events in the Old Testament has given the 29th-28th centuries B.C.E. as the date at which the world language ceased to unite all of the world's peoples. One of the projects of a number of linguistics professors and researchers is the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, the world's first spoken language. The language of Adam and Eve is protoindoeuropean. Anna Katharina Emmerick:

The first tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Shem, and Noah, was different, and it is now extant only in isolated dialects. Its first pure offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongue of India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages, words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my native place. The book that I see in modern Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, is written in that language.
We don't know because the Bible doesn't say.

Bologna History:

The Lighter Side of History

(Which means some "historical facts" and a whole lot of bologna)

Adam and Eve spoke the language of love. That is until Adam started pining for his ex Lilith and then Eve started speaking the language of nagging, a time honored language of wives that defies regional phrasing and can be understood universally regardless of what language it is spoken in. Adam was fond of hiding from Eve when she was going through her nagging phase, underneath the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which he named as such because when Eve left him alone there it was good and when Eve came a nagging it was evil. While modern historians tend to give Sir Isaac newton credit for the discovery of gravity, in fact, that discovery was made by Adam one day when Eve, upset over Adams laziness and unwillingness to mow the Garden of Eden, began kicking Adam and using her broomstick to hit him over the head. Adam, in a vain attempt to escape this abuse dodged her blows and with one blow Eve hit the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and an apple came plunging down on Adam's head. Eve, unimpressed with Adam's pain, told him she didn't think he understood the gravity of the situation and at that moment Adam decided to call the inexplicable force...gravity.

Editors note:

In spite of the mythological accounts of Adam and Eve, The Society of Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians, (S.U.R.R.S.H.), have had enough with this answerers antics and demand a serious and academic answer from him right now.

Oh come on! Were talking about Adam and Eve for crying out loud. How can S.U.R.R.S.H. know if I am right or wrong.

Ahem.

Oh, all right, fine then. According to Abrahamic traditions the language of Adam and Eve was called the Adamic Language, named after none other than Adam who spoke this strange and mysterious form of pig Latin to his second wife Eve. Lilith was his first wife and while Eve was made from a rib from Adams rib cage, Lilith was made from grime as opposed to the dust Adam was made from. Lilith spoke only in gutteral type pronouncements which didn't seem to matter much to Adam who found Lilith very sexy and a whole lot of fun under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil...

Ahem.

O.k. fine. It is in the Book of Genesis 2:19 of the Old Testament where we learn that Adam either invented this language himself or learned it from God who often spoke to Adam over a cup of chamomile tea and some cucumber sandwiches...

Ahem!

Sorry...I'm sorry. Anyway traditional Jewish traditions claim Adam spoke Hebrew because of the names he gave Eve. Most of those names wont get past the obscenity police in wikianswers so it is best to just give the two found in Genesis 2:23 and 3:20 respectively. Those names are Isha and Chava and Jewish scholars claim those names only make sense in Hebrew. What doesn't make sense is if these were the names that Adam gave Eve then why does everybody keep calling her Eve? If Adam spoke Adamic or Hebrew the Book of Genesis is rather ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was actually preserved by Adams descendants before the "confusion of tongues" brought on by the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel or if it just evolved naturally before the time of the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel.

Dante, in his De Vulgari Eloquentia argues that the Adamic language is of divine origin and as such unchangeable. Dante also claims that according to Genesis, the first act of actual speech is spoken by Eve to the serpent and not to Adam. This, of course, gives an awful lot of credence to my prior tale of Adam and Eve speaking the language of love and it is unclear to me why S.U.R.R.S.H. is so persnickety about that. It also seems to be more realistic as wives rarely speak to their husbands and will often speak to "those serpents" instead of their husbands even in modern times...at least that is my experience of wives and any real conversations with them. At any rate, in his Divine Commedia, Dante changes his view somewhat and claims that Adam did invent the Adamic language and consequentially took the view that the language was immutable and since this time the Hebrew language is no longer considered the language of Paradise.

Dante goes further in his Paridiso XXVI to claim that Hebrew is a derivative of the Adamic language and reconstructs the Hebrew name for God in its scholastic tradition of El to the less lettered I. This would explain why years later when God appeared to Moses as a burning bush, told Moses that his name is I Am that I Am. It is also very similar to the language Dr. Seuss relied upon and the metric style profoundly similar such as; "Hey you, what is your name you?" "Why, I Am that I Am as I Am I." But before the wikieditors interrupt me with another ahem, let's not get into Dr. Seuss as that would be off topic.

So is personal stories of ex-wives and the readers don't need to know about your cuckolded life. Just stay on topic please.

O.k. fine. And BTW, I never said my ex cheated on me I only suggested she spent more time talking to other men than she did to me.

If that's what you choose to believe that is your business but has no business in this answer. Do you understand? It should also be noted at this point that the claim that Adam and Eve spoke a form of pig Latin is considered a false claim by S.U.R.R.S.H.

Yeah right. That just shows what a bunch of guys who gather at a Society for Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians actually really, really know about it. It should be further noted then, that some Christian scholars have claimed that Adam spoke Latin and based this claim from an interpretation of Genesis 10:5, so what do you uptight and really, really serious historians have to say about that smart guy?

It is the consensus of S.U.R.R.S.H. that these claims were an invention by some early priests to explain the use of Latin as the Liturgical language of the Church.

Oh. Well...maybe so.

So?

What?

Do you ever intend to finish this answer?

I guess it is finished. I certainly don't have anything more to add. Do you?...Hello? Are you still there? I hate when he does that.
The Bible implies the language of Adam and Eve must have been Hebrew. Genesis chapter 11 says that those who disobeyed God and built the Tower of Babel were scattered and their language confounded. Today, we know that Hebrew originated as a West Semitic language and continued to evolve down through the centuries. Even if Adam and Eve were historical people, the Hebrews would not really have understood them.
The language given to Adam was evidently the one that later came to be known as Hebrew. For at least the first 1,757 years of human existence, all mankind evidently continued to speak that one language. (Genesis 11:1)
What men today call the Hebrew language was, in its original form, the language that Adam spoke in the garden of Eden
English probably. But no one knows for sure.
The Bible does not say what language Adam and Eve spoke. It certainly can not have been Hebrew, since scholars have identified the origins of that language to the late tenth century BCE. It should also be remembered that languages actually go back to at least 100,000 years ago, long before the time attributed to Adam and Eve.

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) considers Adam and Eve to be purely mythical and says that we should not regard the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. On that view, deciding what language they spoke would be meaningless.

A:

The early Hebrews imagined Adam and Eve as speaking Hebrew, just as they did. However, this is plainly impossible as the Hebrew language only evolved from a dialect of Canaanite in the first millennium BCE.
Adam is a figment of a collective judeo-christian imagination. what language is spoken by santa Claus or the Easter Bunny? equally relevent. According to the Jews, Adam spoke Hebrew.

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't say but many linguist believe it to have been a much higher level language then in use today. In any event, at the Tower of Babel, this language was changed by God and the people scattered over the face of the Earth - each region/area/city having their own tongues.

Answer 4

Proto-Semitic language was the ancestor of the Hebrew language.Hebrew is one of the world's oldest languages. The story of Adamand Eve is the story of the creation of mankind, and of theancestors of the Hebrew people. At any rate, Adam's and Eve'slanguage was the first language in the world. According to theeleventh chapter of the book of Genesis, one language was spokenuntil the building of the Tower of Babel. One of the suggesteddating methods for events in the Old Testament has given the29th-28th centuries B.C.E. as the date at which the world languageceased to unite all of the world's peoples. One of the projects ofa number of linguistics professors and researchers is thereconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, the world's first spokenlanguage. The language of Adam and Eve is protoindoeuropean. AnnaKatharina Emmerick:The first tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Shem, andNoah, was different, and it is now extant only in isolateddialects. Its first pure offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongueof India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages,words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my nativeplace. The book that I see in modern Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, iswritten in that language.We don't know because the Bible doesn't say.Bologna History: The Lighter Side of History (Which means some "historical facts" and a whole lot of bologna) Adam and Eve spoke the language of love. That is until Adam started pining for his ex Lilith and then Eve started speaking the language of nagging, a time honored language of wives that defies regional phrasing and can be understood universally regardless of what language it is spoken in. Adam was fond of hiding from Eve when she was going through her nagging phase, underneath the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which he named as such because when Eve left him alone there it was good and when Eve came a nagging it was evil. While modern historians tend to give Sir Isaac Newton credit for the discovery of gravity, in fact, that discovery was made by Adam one day when Eve, upset over Adams laziness and unwillingness to mow the Garden of Eden, began kicking Adam and using her broomstick to hit him over the head. Adam, in a vain attempt to escape this abuse dodged her blows and with one blow Eve hit the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and an apple came plunging down on Adam's head. Eve, unimpressed with Adam's pain, told him she didn't think he understood the gravity of the situation and at that moment Adam decided to call the inexplicable force...gravity. Editors note: In spite of the mythological accounts of Adam and Eve, The Society of Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians, (S.U.R.R.S.H.), have had enough with this answerers antics and demand a serious and academic answer from him right now. Oh come on! Were talking about Adam and Eve for crying out loud. How can S.U.R.R.S.H. know if I am right or wrong. Ahem. Oh, all right, fine then. According to Abrahamic traditions the language of Adam and Eve was called the Adamic Language, named after none other than Adam who spoke this strange and mysterious form of pig Latin to his second wife Eve. Lilith was his first wife and while Eve was made from a rib from Adams rib cage, Lilith was made from grime as opposed to the dust Adam was made from. Lilith spoke only in gutteral type pronouncements which didn't seem to matter much to Adam who found Lilith very sexy and a whole lot of fun under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil... Ahem. O.k. fine. It is in the Book of Genesis 2:19 of the Old Testament where we learn that Adam either invented this language himself or learned it from God who often spoke to Adam over a cup of chamomile tea and some cucumber Sandwiches... Ahem! Sorry...I'm sorry. Anyway traditional Jewish traditions claim Adam spoke Hebrew because of the names he gave Eve. Most of those names wont get past the obscenity police in wikianswers so it is best to just give the two found in Genesis 2:23 and 3:20 respectively. Those names are Isha and Chava and Jewish scholars claim those names only make sense in Hebrew. What doesn't make sense is if these were the names that Adam gave Eve then why does everybody keep calling her Eve? If Adam spoke Adamic or Hebrew the Book of Genesis is rather ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was actually preserved by Adams descendants before the "confusion of tongues" brought on by the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel or if it just evolved naturally before the time of the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel. Dante, in his De Vulgari Eloquentia argues that the Adamic language is of divine origin and as such unchangeable. Dante also claims that according to Genesis, the first act of actual speech is spoken by Eve to the serpent and not to Adam. This, of course, gives an awful lot of credence to my prior tale of Adam and Eve speaking the language of love and it is unclear to me why S.U.R.R.S.H. is so persnickety about that. It also seems to be more realistic as wives rarely speak to their husbands and will often speak to "those serpents" instead of their husbands even in modern times...at least that is my experience of wives and any real conversations with them. At any rate, in his Divine Commedia, Dante changes his view somewhat and claims that Adam did invent the Adamic language and consequentially took the view that the language was immutable and since this time the Hebrew language is no longer considered the language of Paradise. Dante goes further in his Paridiso XXVI to claim that Hebrew is a derivative of the Adamic language and reconstructs the Hebrew name for God in its scholastic tradition of El to the less lettered I. This would explain why years later when God appeared to Moses as a burning bush, told Moses that his name is I Am that I Am. It is also very similar to the language Dr. Seuss relied upon and the metric style profoundly similar such as; "Hey you, what is your name you?" "Why, I Am that I Am as I Am I." But before the wikieditors interrupt me with another ahem, let's not get into Dr. Seuss as that would be off topic. So is personal stories of ex-wives and the readers don't need to know about your cuckolded life. Just stay on topic please. O.k. fine. And BTW, I never said my ex cheated on me I only suggested she spent more time talking to other men than she did to me. If that's what you choose to believe that is your business but has no business in this answer. Do you understand? It should also be noted at this point that the claim that Adam and Eve spoke a form of pig Latin is considered a false claim by S.U.R.R.S.H. Yeah right. That just shows what a bunch of guys who gather at a Society for Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians actually really, really know about it. It should be further noted then, that some Christian scholars have claimed that Adam spoke Latin and based this claim from an interpretation of Genesis 10:5, so what do you uptight and really, really serious historians have to say about that smart guy? It is the consensus of S.U.R.R.S.H. that these claims were an invention by some early priests to explain the use of Latin as the Liturgical language of the Church. Oh. Well...maybe so. So? What? Do you ever intend to finish this answer? I guess it is finished. I certainly don't have anything more to add. Do you?...Hello? Are you still there? I hate when he does that.The Bible implies the language of Adam and Eve must have been Hebrew. Genesis chapter 11 says that those who disobeyed God and built the Tower of Babel were scattered and their language confounded. Today, we know that Hebrew originated as a West Semitic language and continued to evolve down through the centuries. Even if Adam and Eve were historical people, the Hebrews would not really have understood them.The language given to Adam was evidently the one that later came tobe known as Hebrew. For at least the first 1,757 years of humanexistence, all mankind evidently continued to speak that onelanguage. (Genesis 11:1)What men today call the Hebrew language was, in its original form,the language that Adam spoke in the garden of EdenEnglish probably. But no one knows for sure.The Bible does not say what language Adam and Eve spoke. It certainly can not have been Hebrew, since scholars have identified the origins of that language to the late tenth century BCE. It should also be remembered that languages actually go back to at least 100,000 years ago, long before the time attributed to Adam and Eve.Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) considers Adam and Eve to be purely mythical and says that we should not regard the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. On that view, deciding what language they spoke would be meaningless.A:The early Hebrews imagined Adam and Eve as speaking Hebrew, just as they did. However, this is plainly impossible as the Hebrew language only evolved from a dialect of Canaanite in the first millennium BCE.Adam is a figment of a collective judeo-christian imagination. what language is spoken by Santa Claus or the Easter bunny? equally relevent. According to the Jews, Adam spoke Hebrew.

Answer 5

A Jewish view that might be regarded as egocentric, is that Adam and Eve spoke Hebrew. However, scholars now realised that the Hebrew language emerged from a dialect of the Canaanite language, early in the first millennium BCE.

Answer 6

The answer for this includes the following points:

• Opinion: according to Jewish Oral Tradition, Hebrew was the language of the Garden of Eden
• Fact: the Bible does not say what language was spoken
• Fact: any guesses on the language are just guesses
• Opinion: some scholars say that Hebrew had not yet evolved until about 1200 BCE, which is after the traditional date of the writing of the five books of Moses (Torah). There is no way to verify this.
• Opinion: some scholars believe that Hebrew and Old Canaanite were the same language, making Hebrew many thousands of years older than previously thought. There is evidence regarding the similarities, but there is no evidence regarding the age of the languages.
• Opinion: most scholars believe the Adam & Eve story is not factual or literal, and the Biblical accounts are the remnant of a more ancient story widely passed down in the Middle East prior to 1000 BCE.
• Fact: Most people will only accept the answer that conforms with their already-established beliefs.

Answer 7

Proto-Semitic language was the ancestor of the Hebrew language.Hebrew is one of the world's oldest languages. The story of Adamand Eve is the story of the creation of mankind, and of theancestors of the Hebrew people. At any rate, Adam's and Eve'slanguage was the first language in the world. According to theeleventh chapter of the book of Genesis, one language was spokenuntil the building of the Tower of Babel. One of the suggesteddating methods for events in the Old Testament has given the29th-28th centuries B.C.E. as the date at which the world languageceased to unite all of the world's peoples. One of the projects ofa number of linguistics professors and researchers is thereconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, the world's first spokenlanguage. The language of Adam and Eve is protoindoeuropean. AnnaKatharina Emmerick:The first tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Shem, andNoah, was different, and it is now extant only in isolateddialects. Its first pure offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongueof India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages,words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my nativeplace. The book that I see in modern Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, iswritten in that language.We don't know because the Bible doesn't say.Bologna History: The Lighter Side of History (Which means some "historical facts" and a whole lot of bologna) Adam and Eve spoke the language of love. That is until Adam started pining for his ex Lilith and then Eve started speaking the language of nagging, a time honored language of wives that defies regional phrasing and can be understood universally regardless of what language it is spoken in. Adam was fond of hiding from Eve when she was going through her nagging phase, underneath the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which he named as such because when Eve left him alone there it was good and when Eve came a nagging it was evil. While modern historians tend to give Sir Isaac Newton credit for the discovery of gravity, in fact, that discovery was made by Adam one day when Eve, upset over Adams laziness and unwillingness to mow the Garden of Eden, began kicking Adam and using her broomstick to hit him over the head. Adam, in a vain attempt to escape this abuse dodged her blows and with one blow Eve hit the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and an apple came plunging down on Adam's head. Eve, unimpressed with Adam's pain, told him she didn't think he understood the gravity of the situation and at that moment Adam decided to call the inexplicable force...gravity. Editors note: In spite of the mythological accounts of Adam and Eve, The Society of Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians, (S.U.R.R.S.H.), have had enough with this answerers antics and demand a serious and academic answer from him right now. Oh come on! Were talking about Adam and Eve for crying out loud. How can S.U.R.R.S.H. know if I am right or wrong. Ahem. Oh, all right, fine then. According to Abrahamic traditions the language of Adam and Eve was called the Adamic Language, named after none other than Adam who spoke this strange and mysterious form of pig Latin to his second wife Eve. Lilith was his first wife and while Eve was made from a rib from Adams rib cage, Lilith was made from grime as opposed to the dust Adam was made from. Lilith spoke only in gutteral type pronouncements which didn't seem to matter much to Adam who found Lilith very sexy and a whole lot of fun under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil... Ahem. O.k. fine. It is in the Book of Genesis 2:19 of the Old Testament where we learn that Adam either invented this language himself or learned it from God who often spoke to Adam over a cup of chamomile tea and some cucumber sandwiches... Ahem! Sorry...I'm sorry. Anyway traditional Jewish traditions claim Adam spoke Hebrew because of the names he gave Eve. Most of those names wont get past the obscenity police in wikianswers so it is best to just give the two found in Genesis 2:23 and 3:20 respectively. Those names are Isha and Chava and Jewish scholars claim those names only make sense in Hebrew. What doesn't make sense is if these were the names that Adam gave Eve then why does everybody keep calling her Eve? If Adam spoke Adamic or Hebrew the Book of Genesis is rather ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was actually preserved by Adams descendants before the "confusion of tongues" brought on by the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel or if it just evolved naturally before the time of the wicked, wicked, wicked Babel. Dante, in his De Vulgari Eloquentia argues that the Adamic language is of divine origin and as such unchangeable. Dante also claims that according to Genesis, the first act of actual speech is spoken by Eve to the serpent and not to Adam. This, of course, gives an awful lot of credence to my prior tale of Adam and Eve speaking the language of love and it is unclear to me why S.U.R.R.S.H. is so persnickety about that. It also seems to be more realistic as wives rarely speak to their husbands and will often speak to "those serpents" instead of their husbands even in modern times...at least that is my experience of wives and any real conversations with them. At any rate, in his Divine Commedia, Dante changes his view somewhat and claims that Adam did invent the Adamic language and consequentially took the view that the language was immutable and since this time the Hebrew language is no longer considered the language of Paradise. Dante goes further in his Paridiso XXVI to claim that Hebrew is a derivative of the Adamic language and reconstructs the Hebrew name for God in its scholastic tradition of El to the less lettered I. This would explain why years later when God appeared to Moses as a burning bush, told Moses that his name is I Am that I Am. It is also very similar to the language Dr. Seuss relied upon and the metric style profoundly similar such as; "Hey you, what is your name you?" "Why, I Am that I Am as I Am I." But before the wikieditors interrupt me with another ahem, let's not get into Dr. Seuss as that would be off topic. So is personal stories of ex-wives and the readers don't need to know about your cuckolded life. Just stay on topic please. O.k. fine. And BTW, I never said my ex cheated on me I only suggested she spent more time talking to other men than she did to me. If that's what you choose to believe that is your business but has no business in this answer. Do you understand? It should also be noted at this point that the claim that Adam and Eve spoke a form of pig Latin is considered a false claim by S.U.R.R.S.H. Yeah right. That just shows what a bunch of guys who gather at a Society for Uptight and Really, Really, Serious Historians actually really, really know about it. It should be further noted then, that some Christian scholars have claimed that Adam spoke Latin and based this claim from an interpretation of Genesis 10:5, so what do you uptight and really, really serious historians have to say about that smart guy? It is the consensus of S.U.R.R.S.H. that these claims were an invention by some early priests to explain the use of Latin as the Liturgical language of the Church. Oh. Well...maybe so. So? What? Do you ever intend to finish this answer? I guess it is finished. I certainly don't have anything more to add. Do you?...Hello? Are you still there? I hate when he does that.The Bible implies the language of Adam and Eve must have been Hebrew. Genesis chapter 11 says that those who disobeyed God and built the Tower of Babel were scattered and their language confounded. Today, we know that Hebrew originated as a West Semitic language and continued to evolve down through the centuries. Even if Adam and Eve were historical people, the Hebrews would not really have understood them.The language given to Adam was evidently the one that later came tobe known as Hebrew. For at least the first 1,757 years of humanexistence, all mankind evidently continued to speak that onelanguage. (Genesis 11:1)What men today call the Hebrew language was, in its original form,the language that Adam spoke in the garden of EdenEnglish probably. But no one knows for sure.The Bible does not say what language Adam and Eve spoke. It certainly can not have been Hebrew, since scholars have identified the origins of that language to the late tenth century BCE. It should also be remembered that languages actually go back to at least 100,000 years ago, long before the time attributed to Adam and Eve.Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) considers Adam and Eve to be purely mythical and says that we should not regard the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. On that view, deciding what language they spoke would be meaningless.A:The early Hebrews imagined Adam and Eve as speaking Hebrew, just as they did. However, this is plainly impossible as the Hebrew language only evolved from a dialect of Canaanite in the first millennium BCE.Adam is a figment of a collective judeo-christian imagination. what language is spoken by santa Claus or the Easter bunny? equally relevent. According to the Jews, Adam spoke Hebrew.

Answer 8

In a way according to which Adam understood

Answer 9

According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve spoke Hebrew. However, there is nothing in the narrative which suggests which language they spoke.