Talk:Adam

also referred to as "the man" Huh? Does this mean that the literal translation could be "the man"? If so, it should be stated more clearly. PrometheusX303 19:35, 11 February 2006 (GMT)


 * The word "adam" is a word meaning man and it is also a name. Different bible versions translate it differently.  The King James version translates it more often as "Adam" (following the Septuagint) whereas the WEB version, for example, uses "the man" more often. --Oelphick 11:48, 18 December 2006 (EST)

Chronology needs works

Date                    Event                 Reference --Anaccuratesource 00:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * - 4026 B.C.E.    Adam’s creation                Gen. 2:7
 * - a. 4026 B.C.E. Edenic covenant made, first  prophecy     Gen. 3:15
 * - b. 3896 B.C.E. Cain slays Abel                Gen. 4:8
 * - 3896 B.C.E.    Birth of Seth                  Gen. 5:3
 * - 3404 B.C.E.    Birth of righteous Enoch       Gen. 5:18
 * - 3339 B.C.E.    Birth of Methuselah            Gen. 5:21
 * - 3152 B.C.E.    Birth of Lamech                Gen. 5:25
 * - 3096 B.C.E.    Death of Adam                  Gen. 5:5
 * - 3039 B.C.E.    Transference of Enoch; ends   his period of prophesying    Gen. 5:23, 24; Jude 14
 * - 2970 B.C.E.    Birth of Noah                  Gen. 5:28, 29
 * - 2490 B.C.E.    God’s pronouncement as to mankind      Gen. 6:3
 * - 2470 B.C.E.    Birth of Japheth               Gen. 5:32; 9:24; 10:21
 * - 2468 B.C.E.    Birth of Shem                  Gen. 7:11; 11:10
 * - 2370 B.C.E.    Death of Methuselah floodwaters fall (in autumn) Gen. 5:27;Gen. 7:6, 11
 * - 2369 B.C.E.    Making of the covenant after  the Flood Gen. 8:13; 9:16
 * - 2368 B.C.E.    Birth of Arpachshad. Gen. 11:10
 * - a. 2269 B.C.E. Building of the Tower of Babel. Gen. 11:4
 * - 2020 B.C.E.    Death of Noah                  Gen. 9:28, 29
 * - 2018 B.C.E.    Birth of Abraham            Gen. 11:26, 32; 12:4
 * - 1943 B.C.E.    Abraham crosses Euphrates on his way to Canaan; Abrahamic covenant validated; beginning of the 430-year period to Law


 * - Where does this 9:30 a.m. come from? --Anaccuratesource 19:36, 16 May 2011 (PDT)

Adam & Eve Parallels?

 * - "Adam and Eve"


 * - Adam (אדם) (earthing man)
 * - Eve/Chawwah (חַוָּה‎) (feminine: living one)


 * - Asia, East:


 * - Iran: Yima and Yama. - (Persian literature). - (Adam & Eve?) - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshid)
 * - Iran: Mashye and Mashyane. - (Persian literature). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashye) - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - India: Manu and Satarupa. - (Hindu literature). - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - India: Manu and Parsu (personified rib). - (Rig-veda, Hindu literature). - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda) -  (Adam & Eve?)
 * - India: Yama (यम) and Yamī. - (Rig-veda, Hindu literature).(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda) - (Adam & Eve?)


 * - Asia, Middle East:


 * - Akkadian (Modern day: Southern Iraq) Lahmu (male) and Lahamu (female),  of Mesopotamian mythology. - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahmu) "In Sumerian times Laḫmu may have meant "the muddy one"" - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahamu) sometimes seen as a serpent" - Wikipedia. - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - Assyrian (Modern day: Northern Iraq): Adamu (Assyrian literature) - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_king) - (Adam?)
 * - Babylonian (Modern day: Southern Iraq) Amuta - (Babylonian literature). - (Adam?)
 * - Babylonian: Tiamat (Mesopotamian mythology). She borne the title: "Mother to all those living" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat#Mythology) - (Eve?)
 * - Hurrian (Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia): Teshub and Khebat - (Hurrian mythology). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teshub), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebat) - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - Sumerian: (Modern day: Southern Iraq) Adapa and Ninti (life) - (Sumerian literature). -(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapa) - (Adam?)
 * - Sumerian: (Modern day: Southern Iraq) Enki and Ninti - (Sumerian literature). - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninti) - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - Sumerian: (Modern day: Southern Iraq) Alulim - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alulim#Alulim_as_biblical_Adam)- (Adam?)


 * - Sumerian origin to the account of the garden of Eden? or a Hebraic origin to the Sumerian story:


 * - Wikipedia states, under Eve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve): "Some, for instance Samuel Noah Kramer, hold that the origin of this motif is the Sumerian myth in which the goddess Ninhursag created a beautiful garden full of lush vegetation and fruit trees, called Edinu, in Dilmun, the Sumerian earthly Paradise, a place which the Sumerians believed to exist to the east of their own land, beyond the sea.


 * - >> Ninhursag charged Enki, her lover and husband, with controlling the wild animals and tending the garden, but Enki became curious about the garden and his assistant, Adapa, selected seven plants (8 in some version) and offered them to Enki, who ate them. (In other versions of the story[citation needed] he seduced in turn seven generations of the offspring of his divine marriage with Ninhursag). This enraged Ninhursag, and she caused Enki to fall ill. Enki felt pain in his rib, which is a pun in Sumerian, as the word "ti" means both "rib" and "life".


 * - >> The other gods persuaded Ninhursag to relent. Ninhursag then created a new goddess (7 or 8 to heal his 7 or 8 ailing organs including his rib) named Ninti, (a name made up of "Nin", or "lady", plus "ti", and which can be translated as both Lady of Living and Lady of the Rib), to cure Enki. Neither Ninhursag nor Ninti are exact parallels of Eve, since both differ from the character. However, given that the pun with rib is present only in Sumerian, linguistic criticism places the Sumerian account as the more ancient and therefore, a possible narrative influence on the Judeo-Christian story of creation"


 * - However in contrast: one can take the Sumerian myth of "Adapa" in "the Garden of Edinu" and see it having Hebraic origin.
 * - As the phrases Adam and Eden are Hebrew. They are Semitic not Sumerian in origin!
 * - "Adhama:" Earthling man (אדם); ground (אדםה), root meaning “red”. - (Genesis 1:26; 2:7) (See: "mother earth," Gaia, Prithvi Mata, etc below).
 * - Eden (עֵדֶן) ('Eden: Pleasure/delight, lush. See Hebrew root 'dn) - (Genesis 2:8, 9, 16; 1:27-31)
 * - Now Given that these specific puns with "Adam" and "Eden" are present only in Hebrew, arguably could not the linguistic criticism place the Hebraic account as the older origin/influence on the Sumerian story of creation?


 * - Europe:


 * - Greece: Epimetheus and Pandora. (Greek literature). "Ancient Greek mythology held that humanity was immortal during the Golden Age, until Prometheus brought them fire to help them live through cold. The gods punished humans allowing Pandora to release the evil (death, sorrow, plague) into the world due to her curiosity." - Wikipedia - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_(mythology)),(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora). - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - Norway/Scandinavia: Ymir. - (Norse literature). - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir) - (Adam?)


 * - Polynesia:


 * - Cook Islands: Vatea & Varima-te-takere. - In the mythology of Mangaia, Cook Islands. - (Adam & Eve?)
 * - First man or woman in Kikuyu mythology. -(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_man_or_woman#Kikuyu_mythology)

--Anaccuratesource 20:20, 1 October 2012 (PDT)