Rilke's Granddaughter
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| Quote | | The OT contains a web of times, names and places that can and has been used to form a tight and consistent chronology of events going from Adam to the first exile. |
This appears to be another example of Carol deliberately avoiding answering a question. This does NOT explain how you can blithely assign precise dates when the actual correlation of the current calendar to the First Exile cannot be more than approximate.
| Quote | | And the duration of the flood was about a year. |
Since the flood did not actually occur, you mean that the Tanakh states that the flood lasted about a year. Or more. Or less. Consider the fact that the flood may have lasted forty days (Gen. 7:17) or 150 (Gen. 7:24)?
| Quote | | who is not claimed to be the first human in the OT |
Oh? The Jewish Encyclopedia disagrees with you: | Quote | | Man, the crown of Creation, as a pair including man and woman, has been made in God's image. God forms the first man, Adam, out of earth ("adamah"). This indicates his relation to it in a manner that is fundamental for many later laws. Man is a child of the earth, from which he has been taken, and to which he shall return. It possesses for him a certain moral grandeur: he serves it; it does not serve him. He must include God's creatures in the respect that it demands in general, by not exploiting them for his own selfish uses. Unlawful robbery of its gifts (as in paradise), murder, and unchastity anger it, paralyze its power and delight in producing, and defile it. God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of man, whom He formed out of earth. Therefore that part of him that is contrasted with his corporeal nature or supplements it—his life, soul, spirit, and reason—is not, as with the animals, of earthly origin, existing in consequence of the body, but is of divine, heavenly origin. Man is "toledot" (ii. 4) of heaven and earth. |
from Jewish Encyclopedia
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