The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 12, 1909, Page THREE, Image 3
AS TO METHUSELAH'S AGE.
Critic Cuts His 969 Years Down to
78 3-4.
.Methuselah loses his famous rec
ord, for his 969 reputed years are
w ittled down to 78 3-4.".Thus says
the Jewish World in a discussion of
Jewish eharacteristics.
There has always existed a certain
amount of doubt even among believ
-ers in the literal truth of the Bible
eoncerning the great age to which the
Jewish patriarchs are recorded as
hahoving lived. Some of the theories
evolved to reduce the Biblical ree
-ords of this kind to something near
the allotted spa-n of man are dealt
with in the article.
It is surmised, the Jewish World
-eays, that in the earliest times the
month, the period of a moon cycle,
was called a year. Thus Adam's 930
years of life, calculating a year at
29 1-2 days, the length of a lunar
month, works out to 75 1-4 years. Af
ter the month year there came a five
month year, the limit of five being
-derived from the fingers on one hand,
it being remembered that primitive
people always used the fingers for
counting purposes. Then came the
twelve month year.
Excuse for this rearrangement is
-found in the Psalmist's limit of life
of three score and ten years, and it
is maintained that between the times
-of Noah and David no such extraor
dinary change could have taken place
as to reduce the life of man by elev
en-twelfths. On the five moaths year
basis, Abraham's 175 years work
out at 2 7and Isaae's 180 at 74.
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Perhaps, too, there intervened a six 6
month year, discovered by Jacob
while watching Laban's flocks. Thus
Jacob's 147 years work out at about
73. The twelve month year began
with the Egyptians, who saw that a
complete period was made up of the
two "years,'' in one of which the
days we?e longer than the nights and
the other the nights longer than
the days.
.The Christian and Jewish years,
concludes the Jewish World, will not
forever be separated, "for,' it says,
"in due course Rosh Hashona, will
fall at Christmas time and then catch
up the Christian year. This, however,
will not happenTor 30,000 years, and
no doubt that is the reason why no
body worries about it."
As it Was in Billville.
"The old woman's sold the pi
ano."
"My, my!
"And I've mortgaged two mules."
"Worse an' worse!"
"An' the Jersey cow has changed
hands."
"Awful-awful!"
"I know it, but the man didn't
have but one automobile left, an' the
old woman set her iheart on it, an'
I'm goin' to be her chaffer, an' let
her see some style afore we go hence
an' air seen: no more forever!
Vice Versa.
"What have you been doing in
the country i'
"Oh, just lying around and fish
ing.'
"You mean fishing and lying
around.' '-Boston Transcript.
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