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  2. Pre-Adamite - Wikipedia

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    Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel. The pre-Adamite hypothesis or pre-Adamism is the theological belief that humans (or intelligent yet non-human creatures) existed before the biblical character Adam. Pre-Adamism is therefore distinct from the conventional Abrahamic belief that Adam was the first human. "Pre-Adamite" is used as a term, both ...

  3. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2–3 it carries the definite article ha , equivalent to English 'the', indicating that this is "the man". [ 9 ]

  4. Protoplast (religion) - Wikipedia

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    A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human [1] or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of humankind (as in Adam and Eve or Manu and Shatrupa), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

  5. Adam - Wikipedia

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    Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This ...

  6. Primeval history - Wikipedia

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    The Eden narrative (the story of Adam and Eve and how they came to be expelled from God's presence) Cain and Abel and the first murder; The book of the toledot of Adam (5:1–6:8) (The Hebrew includes the word "book") the first of two genealogies of Genesis, the Kenites, descendants of Cain, who invent various aspects of civilised life

  7. Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with Adam, genealogical material in Genesis 4, 5, 10, 11, 22, 25, 29–30, 35–36, and 46 moves the narrative forward from the creation to the beginnings of the Israelites' existence as a people. [citation needed] Adam's lineage in Genesis contains two branches: Chapter 4 giving the descendants of Cain, and Chapter 5 that for Seth ...

  8. Cain and Abel - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. First two sons of Adam and Eve This article is about the first and second sons of Adam and Eve. For other uses, see Cain and Abel (disambiguation). Cain slaying Abel, by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1600 In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain [a] and Abel [b] are the first two sons of Adam and ...

  9. First man or woman - Wikipedia

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    First man may refer to: Protoplasts, a technical term for the legendary first people of any creation myth, including a list of first men and women in different traditions Adam and Eve, the first people in Abrahamic religions (Adam and Hawa in Islam; Adam and Chava in Judaism) Manu (Hinduism) and Shatarupa, the first people in Indian religions