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The Old Testament also suggests Abraham lived to 175; Genesis says Enoch lived to over 360.

Given BCE life expectancy I think it's safe to interpret all these numbers as "poetically large" and leave it at that. :)



Hi Thomas - Yeah, and Methuselah was said to live to 969. There's some commentary on that here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths#Hebrew_Bible).


Average life expectancy during those days won't give a good picture of things.

Infant mortality was real high and those lived long, lived real long. A lot of them died in epidemics and wars.




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