Genesis 5:1
Hebrew Bible
1 This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.” 3 When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Sanhedrin 38b
Babylonian Talmud
Rabbinic
And this, i.e., that the verse in Psalms is stated by Adam, is what Reish Lakish says: What is the meaning of that which is written: “This is the book of the generations of Adam” (Genesis 5:1)? This verse teaches that the Holy One, Blessed be He, showed Adam every generation and its Torah interpreters, every generation and its wise ones. When he arrived at his vision of the generation of Rabbi Akiva, Adam was gladdened by his Torah, and saddened by his manner of death. He said: “How weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God,” i.e., how it weighs upon me that a man as great as Rabbi Akiva should suffer.
Date: 450-550 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Some Jewish legends relate that Adam, in his state as a lifeless mass, or a golem, was uniquely educated by the deity. This divine instruction included a comprehensive vision of the entire human history.1 Later Jewish mystics often received a similar vision on the heavenly curtain Pargod, which showed them the course of human history together with all its generations and leaders. According to Scholem, “even before Adam has speech and reason, he beholds a vision of the history of Creation, which passes before him in images.”2 Genesis Rabbah 24:2 underlines the comprehensiveness of this revelation when it tells that the first-formed beheld every generation and its sages, judges, scribes, interpreters, and leaders ... According to the Babylonian Talmud and the Book of Zohar, the protoplast was the first human being who received a vision of every generation and its leaders, referenced in b. Sanhedrin 38b ..."
Orlov, Andrei A.
Golem’s Education: Descent Pedagogy in the Apocalypse of Abraham
(pp. 1-34) Marquette University, 2024
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