>>>>>>>>>>In Genesis 5:2 for instance it says "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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>>>>>>>>>Two questions. First, was Eve's name Adam, too? Second, what does it mean "call a name something" - a name has a name? Which brings the subquestion: what were their names' names before that?
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>>>>>>>>FWIW, "adam" is the Hebrew word for "man." So I read that passage as "and called them 'man'"
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>>>>>>>That's not my question. That's how he was called. What was his name called?
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>>>>>>Right. It is a weird construction. I just looked at the Hebrew and it really is written that way. In transliteration, "Va-yikra et sh'mam a-dam."
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>>>>>>And in the next verse, we have "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. "
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>>>>>>However, I note that the site I'm using says it's based on the 1917 JPS (Jewish Publication Society) translation. There is a newer one, but it doesn't seem to be online. If I remember, I'll grab a copy from my shelf and see how this is translated. I know that in the new version, for example, it doesn't say "In the beginning, God created," but "When God began to create."
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>>>>>130 years old is about par for the course for the holy documents. Until recently a person was lucky to live to half that age. And they are regarded as gospel because?
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>>>>Huh? 1917 is 96 years. I assume that's the one online because it's out of copyright.
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>>>I meant the Bible.
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>>Who said that Adam lived only 130 old?
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>I think is just an issue of incompleteness and or translation, if you read "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. " it certainly looks as if it is saying he lived to 130, but then Genesis 5:4 says that after Seth was born Adam lived another 800 years, and 5:5 says that he died as a 930 years old gaffer.

It looks pretty complete to me: He was 130 years old when he got his first son, then he lived another 800 years, and both values together make 930 years which is his age when he died. So we should conclude that nowadays a person should feel lucky if he lived 10th that age.

After the incident in Genesis 6 the maximum age of a human became limited to 120 years of age and that is the general rule we have today. So in the best human possible scenario, the highest age anybody could become today would be 120 years.