caa a22 4500 378893866 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040906xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.323 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.323 Young Dwight Wayne 1. Edgewater Beach 1102, 5555 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60640. The Step-down to Two Hundred in Genesis 11,10-25 [Elektronische Daten] [Dwight Wayne Young] The expansive life-spans of Gen 5 and 11 were in the main organized in MT around the numbers 900, 600, 400 and 200. The first three of these figures were apparently adapted from foundational algebraic exercises in the sexagesimal mathematics of Babylonia, in which they are products of 30 and 20. That the author's inspiration for the scheme came from this mathematics is suggested also by the step-down from a 400-group to a 200-group. The strongest evidence that 200 has a special affinity with the larger figures comes from a mathematical problem devised in the Old Babylonian period, wherein the core number is sexagesimal 3,20, the equivalent of decimal 200. The threefold application of 3,20 in the problem raises the possibility that the biblical chronologist may have been induced thereby to create a triadic arrangement for both the 400-group and the 200-group. © Walter de Gruyter Religion: general nationallicence Christianity nationallicence Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/3(2004-09-06), 323-333 0044-2526 116:3<323 2004 116 zatw https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.323 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.323 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Young Dwight Wayne 1. Edgewater Beach 1102, 5555 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60640 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/3(2004-09-06), 323-333 0044-2526 116:3<323 2004 116 zatw CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter