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To: Just mythoughts; Rob112586
"What does the word Adam mean? Ruddy... to show blood in the face..

Well, kind of. In Hebrew "dam" means blood and "adamah" means earth, and they're sort of related because in parts of the Middle East (just like here in Tennessee) there's a lot of brownish-red clay. Adam could have been pink as a blushing Welshman or as earth-red as the Cherokee Sequoyah.

We don't know what Adam looked like.

Neither do we know what Jesus looked like. But this image may be close.

131 posted on 02/15/2008 1:48:05 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Pray (Pray!) Oh yes we pray (Pray!) - We've got to pray just to make it today." ---- MC Hammer)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m very interested in Sumerian mythology, especially considering a decent amount of Babylonian and Judaic/Christian mythology descends from it. And in the surviving Sumerian texts and stone seals, the God(s) created “Atom/Adom” from clay as the first perfect human in the image of the God(s). I wonder if this was the basis for the Torrah’s creation story.

Also, the Epic of Gilgamesh shares many parralels with the Noah’s Ark story.


140 posted on 02/15/2008 3:11:56 PM PST by Rob112586 ("...a decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Well, kind of. In Hebrew "dam" means blood and "adamah" means earth, and they're sort of related because in parts of the Middle East (just like here in Tennessee) there's a lot of brownish-red clay.

The word dam is used 5 times in the Bible, at least translated to the usage of the word dam. My Strong's refers to Hebrew number 517 and is a prim. word; a mother as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both lit. and fig.) [like 1]: - dam, mother, x parting.

Whereas the word aw-dawm' Hebrew number 119; to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy: - be dyed, made) red (ruddy):

Hebrew number 120; from 119; ruddy, i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - x another, + hypocrite, + common sort, x low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

Hebrew number 121; the same as 120; Adam, the name of the first man, also of a place in Pal.: -Adam.

Hebrew number 122; from 119; rosy:-red, ruddy.

Hebrew number 123; ed-ome'; or (fully) from 122; red [see Genesis 25:25]; Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him: - Edom, Edomites, Idumea.

etc, etc, etc, etc,

185 posted on 02/16/2008 7:41:02 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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