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Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat - Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

Jöran Friberg - Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records

J. Klein - The ‘Bane’ of Humanity: A Lifespan of One Hundred and Twenty Years

Kenneth Kitchen - On the Reliability of the Old Testament

Meir Bar-Ilan - When Being Numerate Used to Mean Something Else

Nahum M. Sarna - Understanding Genesis

Duane L. Christensen - The Mysterious Numbers of the Ages of the Patriarchs

Craig Olson - How Old Was Father Abraham?

Kenneth A. Matthew - The New American Commentary: Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 11:26

R.R. Wilson - Genealogy and History in the Biblical World

W. E. Aufrecht in "Ascribe to the Lord"

Kenton Spark in "Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?"

Lloyd R. Bailey - Biblical Math as Heilsgeschichte?

Carol Hill - Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis

Richard Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature

Mark Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger - Mesopotamia and the Bible

Ben-Zion Wacholder - How Long did Abram Stay in Egypt? A Study in Hellenistic, Quran, and Rabbinic Chronology

Jeremy Hughes - Secrets of the Time