Person
Cainan (antediluvian patriarch)
Cainan (antediluvian patriarch) lived 910 years by the genealogies' ages: 3679 BC – 2769 BC in the Traditional (the Modern reckoning gives no dates before Abraham).
When did Cainan live?
- Modern reckoning
- no date (before Abraham)
- Traditional reckoning
- 3679–2769 BC
- Age at death
- 910, by the genealogies' ages
Ages come from the Bible's own numbers, read the traditional way (no gaps in the genealogies). In the Modern reckoning a life keeps its length and is placed from the nearest dated event. Lifespans: Theographic Bible Metadata. About the two reckonings.
Who was alive at the same time as Cainan?
By the genealogies' ages (traditional reading), longest overlap first.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.