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Methuselah
מתושלח he Matusale la Μαθουσάλας grc
Oldest person in the Bible, Biblical Patriarch
- Child of Enoch
- Consort of Edna
- Traditionally until 2348 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Methuselah
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 3
Kinship in an account 3
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Written 85 CEGospel of Luke
book of the New Testament -
First Book of Chronicles
book of the Christian Old Testament corresponding to the first half of the Book of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible -
Book of Enoch
ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text, part of the canon of the Ethiopian-Orthodox Church - Written 1st century CE
Second Book of Enoch
pseudepigraphic apocalypse describing the ascent of Enoch, through ten heavens, extant in Church Slavonic and in Coptic fragments -
Book of Moses
part of the scriptural canon of the LDS movement; originally Genesis 1–6 of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible; today published as part of the Pearl of Great Price -
Genesis 5 ↗
Book of Genesis, chapter 5
Sources
Sources and evidence
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9 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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