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Date Posted: 20:42:00 04/07/08 Mon
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: A new Adam?

Alters points out that Adam and Enosh both mean "man"/"mankind". Anosh/Adam. Their names are doubles of one another. One is the grandson of Seth replaces the seed of Cain and Abel. It is almost as though Enosh and his dad Seth are involved in a new sort of creation. Adam messed up. His sons really messed up. They almost end the human line. Then Enosh/man is born again. At THIS particular moment, "the name of the Lord was first invoked." This makes me wonder what men were doing before this time. Did Adam and Eve not invoke the name of the Lord? Or, since Enosh is using a name of God that won't even be given until Exodus, are the redactors demonstrating something different in the double-ness of Enosh. Is he supposed to represent a new humanity? As soon as this event occurs, a geneology follows. It appears that God cuts off the Adam narrative and opens a new section, starting with the generations of Enosh to Noah.

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