Genesis Timeline
15 03 2010
I was learning how to use a new tool that does analysis of timing and though punching in the timeline of Genesis may be a good way to learn some of the in’s and out’s. There were some neat things that I learned from this as well:
- Adam lived to see 8 generations (till Lamech, the father of Noah)
- Methuselah (the longest living man) would probably have lived longer if not for the flood; he died that same year (Lamech died five years earlier).
- In the 9 generations that followed Shem, he lived longer than all of them except Eber; longer than Abram (his 9th generation) and into the time of Isaac.
It made me wish that there were a lot more recorded stories for all these other guys that really only got a name mentioned; I imagine there are some good stories outside of the main ones of Adam, Noah, Abram and Isaac.
You are surely the first to use an EDA application for this purpose! Found it interesting, especially that Shem lasted into the time of Isaac.
Would one conclude that Shem would know of Abram/Abraham at all? Abram surely became well-known because of his wealth and strength of his group (large enough with allies to defeat some forces who had kidnapped Lot and the whole of Sodom). But I suppose that begs the question of where Shem was anyway, Off in the land of Abram’s father and nowhere near Canaan probably?