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Originally posted by gene90:
You're missing my point. You said that some girls hit puberty at 7, I said that Sarah would have hit menopause by 7, and further, that 7 was generally considered to old to have children (she laughed at the idea when God told Abraham what would happen).
[This message has been edited by gene90, 02-28-2002]
I'm not sure about this line of reasoning, but there is a medical
case in the UK NOW of a women who went through the
menopause at a very young age ... like early teens.
She laughs as though she wouldn't expect to get pregnant, and
that's enough for me to suggest she was thought of as old.
Two things in this context that I would raise are::
1) We do not know how long a year was in the patriarch's time.
2) On reading Genesis it appears that sometimed referring to, say,
Adam, is referring not to the man, but to his clan. 900 years
could be the lifetime of the clan of Adam, rather than the man.
[This message has been edited by Peter, 03-01-2002]
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