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The Lost One
In another thread of mine: Noah's Flood: local or regional flooding, I got into short converse with datings of the Genesis genealogy with Shermana.
I have webpage called Timeline of the Patriarchs (in Dark Mirrors of Heaven). In this webpage, there are couple of tables.
One of them is a genealogy of Adam to Joseph, with dates. I have includes records from both Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint Bible.
With the 2nd table, I showed the timeline of certain events that occurred in the Genesis. My sources for this table is the Masoretic Text. My only problem is that I can neither read Hebrew nor Greek, so I relied on English translations that are available.
I preferred to use the Masoretic Text (English translation, of course), but I don't mind comparing this version with the Septuagint or any other manuscripts that are available. Shermana preferred the Septuagint.
There are notable differences between these 2 versions, especially in the Genesis with age (years) about the some of the patriarchs. Although the age of each life are mostly the same, when each become father is quite different between the 2 texts.
For example, the Masoretic says that Adam was 130 when he became father of Seth, but in the Septuagint it say he was 230. This is a jump of 100 years. The same goes for Seth. Seth was 105 in Masoretic, when he was father of Enosh, but 205 in Septuagint.
Concerning the numbers (age, years) in the Genesis, which of the 2 texts, do you think, is more accurate, or closer to the original? The Septuagint or the Masoretic?
I have webpage called Timeline of the Patriarchs (in Dark Mirrors of Heaven). In this webpage, there are couple of tables.
One of them is a genealogy of Adam to Joseph, with dates. I have includes records from both Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint Bible.
With the 2nd table, I showed the timeline of certain events that occurred in the Genesis. My sources for this table is the Masoretic Text. My only problem is that I can neither read Hebrew nor Greek, so I relied on English translations that are available.
I preferred to use the Masoretic Text (English translation, of course), but I don't mind comparing this version with the Septuagint or any other manuscripts that are available. Shermana preferred the Septuagint.
There are notable differences between these 2 versions, especially in the Genesis with age (years) about the some of the patriarchs. Although the age of each life are mostly the same, when each become father is quite different between the 2 texts.
For example, the Masoretic says that Adam was 130 when he became father of Seth, but in the Septuagint it say he was 230. This is a jump of 100 years. The same goes for Seth. Seth was 105 in Masoretic, when he was father of Enosh, but 205 in Septuagint.
Concerning the numbers (age, years) in the Genesis, which of the 2 texts, do you think, is more accurate, or closer to the original? The Septuagint or the Masoretic?