Adam (for Robert Squires)
yoel haalmoni (core@rof.net)
Sun, 11 May 1997 20:19:59 -0600
>SQUIRES
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>The above debate sounds not only believable but very typical. Knowing how
>to ask the right questions - such as a 90-foot Adam (from hadeeth
>literature, not the Qur'an) and that Adam spoke Arabic - can certainly
>embarrass Muslims.
yoel-
Is his name "Adam" in Arabic? Does it mean the same in Arabic? In Hebrew,
"adam" means man. It comes from "adamah", which means "earth" or "soil".
Eve "hhavah" means "alive".