Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Arabic: آدم) was, according to the Book of Genesis and the Qur'an, the first man created by God and noted in subsequent Jewish, Christian and Islamic commentary. His wife was Eve.
Adam אָדָם in Biblical (as well as modern) Hebrew is sometimes used as the personal name of an individual and at other times in a generic sense meaning "mankind". According to some scholars, its use in Genesis 1 is wholly generic. In Genesis 2 and...
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Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Arabic: آدم) was, according to the Book of Genesis and the Qur'an, the first man created by God and noted in subsequent Jewish, Christian and Islamic commentary. His wife was Eve.
Adam אָדָם in Biblical (as well as modern) Hebrew is sometimes used as the personal name of an individual and at other times in a generic sense meaning "mankind". According to some scholars, its use in Genesis 1 is wholly generic. In Genesis 2 and 3 the writer weaves together the generic and the personal senses of the word. In all that pertains to the first man as the passive subject of creative and providential action the reference is exclusively generic. Indeed, it is doubtful whether "Adam" as a proper name is used at all before Genesis 4:25 and 5:3. Here the same usage is manifest: for in the two opening verses of chap. v. the word is used generically. It may also be observed that the writer in Genesis 2-3 always says "the man" instead of "Adam", even when the personal reference is...
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