Methuselah was supposed to be the man who was played by Anthony Hopkins in the recent Noah movie where Noah was played by Russell Crowe. Methuselah was Noah's Grandfather and supposedly lived to 969 years of age. If those times were technological like these are now, he probably lived that long because of medical technology. Also with technology would come CO2 and global Climate Change and Flooding. So, it makes sense that that culture eventually flooded like many places will this century and likely be taken under the waves temporarily or permanently.
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Methuselah
is the man in the Hebrew Bible reported to have lived the longest.
Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of Cheshvan
of the year
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This article is about the biblical Methuselah. For other uses, see Methuselah (disambiguation).
The name Methuselah, or the phrase "old as Methuselah", is commonly used to refer to any living thing reaching great age. ContentsIn the BibleMethuselah is mentioned in one passage in the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 5:21–27, as part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah. The genealogy is repeated, without the chronology, at 1 Chronicles 1:3, and also appears at Luke 3:37. The following is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.(21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and Enoch begat sons and daughters: (23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. (25) And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: (26) And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: (27) And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. (KJV)The verses are available in three manuscript traditions, the Masoretic, the Septuagint and the Samaritan Torah. The three traditions do not agree with each other. The differences can be summarized as follows:[4]
Extra-Biblical mentionsMethuselah appears in two important Jewish works from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. In the Book of Enoch,[6] Enoch (as the narrator) tells Methuselah of the coming worldwide flood and of the future Messianic kingdom. The Book of Jubilees names Methuselah's mother and his wife – both are named Edna – and his daughter-in-law, Betenos, Lamech's wife.The 17th century midrashic Sefer haYashar ("Book of Jasher")[7] describes Methuselah with his grandson Noah attempting to persuade the people of the earth to return to godliness.[8] All other very long-lived people died, and Methuselah was the only one of this class left.[9] God planned to bring the flood after all the men who walked in the ways of the Lord had died (besides Noah and his family).[10] Methuselah lived until the ark was built, but died before the flood, since God had promised he would not be killed with the unrighteous.[9] The Sefer haYashar gives Methuselah's age at death as 960[11] and does not synchronize his death with the flood. The Sumerian king list mentions a character named Ubaratutu who seems almost identical to Methuselah. He was the son of Enmunderana the Sumerian Enoch, and king of Sumeria until the flood swept over the land. Although their ages are different their father and year of death remain the same.[citation needed] Interpretations
For more details on this topic, see Biblical longevity.
LiteralLiteral interpretations take Methuselah's 969 years to be exactly 969 solar year life span. Some literalists suggest certain pseudoscientific arguments for how this could be: the patriarchs had a better diet, or a water vapor canopy protected the earth from radiation prior to the Flood.[12] Others introduce theological causes: man was originally to have everlasting life, but sin was introduced into the world by Adam and Eve, its influence became greater with each generation, and God progressively shortened man's life, particularly in the postdiluvian era.[13]MistranslationSome believe that Methuselah's extreme age is the result of an ancient mistranslation that converted "months" to "years", producing a more credible 969 lunar months, or 78½ years,[14] but the same calculation applied to Enoch would have him fathering Methuselah at the age of 5[15] using numbers from the Masoretic Text. Donald V. Etz suggested that the Genesis 5 numbers "might for convenience have all been multiples of 5 or 10".[16] If the Septuagint numbers are divided by 10, Enoch's 165 when he fathered his son would be 16½ years, and Methuselah's 969 when he died would be 96.9 years.Ellen Bennet argued that the Septuagint Genesis 5 numbers are in tenths of years, which "will explain how it was that they read 930 years for the age of Adam instead of 93 years, and 969 years for Methuselah instead of 96 years, and 950 years for that of Noah instead of 95 years"... "Surely it is much more rational to conclude that Noah lived 50 years instead of 500 years before he took a wife and begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth." and lists the Septuagint total ages with decimal points: 93.0 for Adam, 91.0 for Cainan, 96.9 for Methuselah, 95.0 for Noah, etc.[17] Robert M. Best provided a similar table of the same Septuagint Genesis 5 numbers with decimal points inserted in the same tenth position.[18] SymbolicBiblical chronology routinely uses numbers for their symbolic value: for example, 10 symbolizes completion, 8 symbolizes the mundane world, and 7 the divine.[citation needed] So Methuselah's father Enoch, who does not die but is taken by God, is the seventh patriarch, and Methuselah, the eighth, dies in the year of the Flood, which ends the ten-generational sequence from Adam to Noah, in whose time the world is destroyed.[19]FictionalAmong those who believe that all the numbers of Genesis 5, including Methuselah's age, have no meaning at all, Kenneth Kitchen calls them "pure myth",[20] Yigal Levin believes they are intended simply to speed the reader from Adam to Noah,[21] and Claus Westermann believes they are intended to create the impression of a distant past.[22]Derivative wordsThe word "Methuselarity" was coined by Aubrey de Grey to mean a future point in time when all of the medical conditions that cause human death would be eliminated and death would occur only by accident or homicide.[23]Use of the word in modern lifeA Methuselah is one of several large wine bottle sizes named after Biblical figures; a Methuselah contains six litres of wine.One of the leading non-profit organizations supporting scientific research focused on human life extension is the Methuselah Foundation. Several breakthroughs have been made within the programs of this organization, including the rejuvenation mice and the extension of a mouse's lifespan to approximately 2.5 times the average lifespan for a mouse. These developments give hope to efforts to use scientific means to stop or delay aging and extend human life in near future.[24] Methuselah is the proper name given to the second oldest known Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It germinated in 2832 BC and was for many years considered the world's oldest living tree, until the 2013 announcement of the discovery of an older bristlecone pine.[25] The word "methuselah" is used extensively in the anime series Trinity Blood; the term is the preferred nomenclature of vampires in the series. Similarly, in White Wolf Publishing's Vampire: The Masquerade, long-unlived vampires are referred to as Methuselahs. In the film Blade Runner, the character J.F. Sebastian is suffering from the fictional disease "Methuselah Syndrome", which involves premature aging. The Howard Families, a fictional group of unusually long lived humans created by the author Robert A. Heinlein, are sometimes described as "Methuselahs" by outsiders in his books Methuselah's Children and Time Enough for Love. In the Star Trek Original Series episode "Requiem for Methuselah", a man is revealed to be immortal and to have been using many identities over the centuries. Over the course of his long life span, he used the names of many famous figures in history, including Methuselah. In Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, a mouse, nicknamed "Methuselah", lived for weeks in the zoo's viper exhibit. Here, the name draws attention to the length of time the mouse spent living peacefully with animals that would normally consume the mammal in a heartbeat.[26] In the 2014 film Noah, Methuselah is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.[27] See also
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