huh. that is interesting. I'm thinking of Sarah, Abraham's wife from the book of Genesis. At 90+ she laughs at abraham when he tells her that God has promised she will conceive. She says she is past her time or child bearing but concieves anyway.
So the question is, just when did true menopause start? Eve of course, concieved indefinitely. Scripture records that she and Adam lived into the 700's I think and that they bore children for a good portion of that time.
Similarly, Noah is presumed to have gone on to have more children with his wife after the flood and he was 200ish I think?
The time line would be that Abraham and Sarah were several hundred years after Noah and it is the first mention of the cessation of fertility.
I don't know if you subscribe to the historical content of the Bible or not but regardless, it is compelling within the context of the theory of the evolution of late-life infertility to aide in rearing the younger generations while the able bodied adults worked/hunted
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Date: 2008-07-22 03:37 pm (UTC)So the question is, just when did true menopause start? Eve of course, concieved indefinitely. Scripture records that she and Adam lived into the 700's I think and that they bore children for a good portion of that time.
Similarly, Noah is presumed to have gone on to have more children with his wife after the flood and he was 200ish I think?
The time line would be that Abraham and Sarah were several hundred years after Noah and it is the first mention of the cessation of fertility.
I don't know if you subscribe to the historical content of the Bible or not but regardless, it is compelling within the context of the theory of the evolution of late-life infertility to aide in rearing the younger generations while the able bodied adults worked/hunted