Adamites and Preadamites (Classic Reprint): Or a Popular Discussion Concerning the Remote Representatives of the Human Species and Their Relation to the Biblical Adam - Couverture souple

Winchell, Alexander

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ISBN 10 : 1330900065 ISBN 13 : 9781330900062

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

New insights into ancient peoples and timelines

Explore a provocative examination of antediluvian life, ages, and the movement of early peoples across continents. This edition presents a methodical argument about how lifespans, genealogies, and early races fit into a broader view of world history. The work threads together biblical chronology, ethnology, and historical sources to challenge simple readings of the ancient past. It surveys life spans from patriarchal times to later ages and ties them to migrations, cultures, and the rise and fall of early civilizations. Readers are invited to weigh competing interpretations of Genesis and to consider how scientific inquiry can inform religious faith.

• A clear outline of how lifespans and ages have been interpreted across biblical and historical sources.
• Discussion of how antediluvian life, migrations, and early races might have shaped later civilizations.
• Arguments about how modern science and archaeology relate to traditional chronologies.
• Considerations of how the author evaluates competing theories and the role of scholarly debate.

Ideal for readers of historical theology, biblical chronology, and those curious about how scholars connect ancient texts with evidence from archaeology and ethnology.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Adamites and Preadamites: Or a Popular Discussion Concerning the Remote Representatives of the Human Species and Their Relation to the Biblical Adam

In 1655 a small book appeared in Paris, which had for its title the unheard-of subject, "Pre-Adamites." It was written in Latin, and its full title was as follows: Prœ-Adamitœ sive Exercitatio super Versibus duodecimo, decimo tertio et decimo quarto, capitis quinti Epistolœ D. Pauli ad Romanos, quibus inducuntur Primi Homines ante Adamum conditi." The book appeared anonymously; and those acquainted with the spirit of the dominant ecclesiasticism of that date will readily divine the motive of its author. It very soon became known, however, that it was written by La Peyrere, a Dutch ecclesiastic, whose name when Latinized was Peyrerius. The work was an attempt to prove from biblical authority that men must have lived on the earth before Adam. Within a year appeared its complement, from the pen of the same author, in which the whole subject was newly argued and more thoroughly discussed. This was a "Theological System based on the Hypothesis of Pre-Adamites." The two works may now occasionally be found in one volume. The Syracuse University possesses a copy.

The following year a book appeared in London, the title of which is a literal translation of that of "Præ-Adamitæ," but it includes also the "Systema Theologicum" of Peyrerius.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330900065
• ISBN 13: 9781330900062
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 58
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