Dating Adam – An Analysis of Biblical Chronology

Did Adam really live for 930 years..?

Dating Adam, An Analysis of Biblical Chronology, by Michiel Loubser sets out to demonstrate that some very likely errors were made during the conversion from sexagesimal numerals to decimal numbers some 3,000 years ago:

Analyzing Biblical chronological timeline:
Genesis 5:5 states: “Altogether, Adam lived 930 years . . .”
This number was originally recorded on a clay tablet in sexagesimal numerals as “ IIIII<<<< ”

The sexagesimal number system (with a base of 60) was the first positional number system in the world. It was used throughout the Middle East from about 3000 BC until at least 1700 BC.

After that it was slowly phased out in favour of the decimal number system (with a base of 10) that is universally in use today.
During the reigns of the kings David and Solomon (about 1000 BC) learned scribes were commissioned to convert the then long obsolete sexagesimal numerals to decimal quantities expressed in words to record a biblical timeline.

Could they have erred in their conversions?
Dating Adam- An Analysis of Biblical Chronology, demonstrates that some very likely and obvious errors were made. It re-examines all the number conversions in the book of Genesis.