Methuselah Methuselah Methuselah ( "Metushelaḥ" "Man of the javelin" or "Man of Selah") is a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Said to have died at the age of 969, he lived the longest of all figures mentioned in the Bible. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1st Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke. His life is described in further detail in extra-biblical religious texts such as the Book of Enoch, Slavonic
1952 Bible Conference (Adventist) Heppenstall re-emphasized the church belief, that the old and New Covenants are part of an everlasting covenant. Shortly after the Bible Conference, the Biblical Research Committee was founded by the General Conference. This new organization was created to encourage biblical research and to provide guidance to those who have new biblical ideas. The committee was chaired by W. E. Read until 1956 and has become the Biblical Research Institute. The 1952 Bible Conference, according to Cottrell, opened the way for new scholarly projects like the "Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary" (published 1953-1957) and "Problems in Bible Translation" (1954). The edited transcripts