> > So all the days of Me·thu´se·lah amounted to nine hundred
> >and sixty-nine years and he died.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that this is a progenitor scale, not a single human 
being..... Oliva
> 

I'm of the opinion that this was a mistaken translation... I've always 
figured that some monk mistranslated a word that meant something along the 
lines of "cycle of the moon" into "cycle of the sun" or something like 
that... If you figure it like that, there are roughly 12 to 13 lunar cycles 
per year, Methuselah's age could be guesstimated at 74 to 81 years. Much 
more believable for heathen such as myself. ;-) And, just so it's clear, I 
don't doubt the Bible... I just doubt man's ability to translate it 
throughout the ages.

-dan