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METHUSELAH

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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METHUSELAH  , in the Old Testament, the seventh in descent from

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Adam, and
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father of
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Lamech . According to
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Genesis v . 21 he lived 969 years (see
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BIBLE: Old Testament, § 5, "
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Chronology ") . The name itself has been much discussed . Holzinger interprets it as "
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man of the
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javelin ": Hommel prefers " man of Selah," Selah being the Hebraized
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form of the Babylonian Sarrahu (i.e. the
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god
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Sin), and identifies it with the'Aµhjs os of
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Berossus . The form Methushael, used by the author of Gen. iv . 18 and by some commentators preferred for Gen. v . 21, is variously explained as meaning " man of El " (
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Ball), or as a transcription (
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Sayce) of the Babylonian Mutula-
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ili (possibly, " man of the goddess") .

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