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  "term": "Adam",
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  "letter": "A",
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  "short_definition": "Adam is the first man in Scripture.",
  "simple_one_line": "Adam is the first man in Scripture.",
  "tooltip_text": "Adam: the first man in Scripture",
  "lede_intro": "Adam is the first man in Scripture. Read Adam through the concrete offices, relationships, obediences, and failures attached to that person's place in the biblical storyline.",
  "at_a_glance_definition": "Adam is the first man in Scripture, formed by God from the dust and placed in Eden under a covenantal test. He stands at the head of the human race and functions representatively in biblical theology.",
  "at_a_glance_key_points": [
    "Adam belongs to the opening chapters of Scripture where creation, vocation, command, and fall are first disclosed.",
    "He is presented both as the first man and as a representative figure whose act affects all his offspring.",
    "Read Adam with attention to Genesis 1–3 and the later Adam-Christ contrast in Paul."
  ],
  "description_academic_short": "Adam is the first man in Scripture, formed by God from the dust and placed in Eden under a covenantal test. He stands at the head of the human race and functions representatively in biblical theology. A good dictionary treatment identifies both the historical referent and the theological weight the canon places upon it.",
  "description_academic_full": "Adam is the first man in Scripture, formed by God from the dust and placed in Eden under a covenantal test. He stands at the head of the human race and functions representatively in biblical theology. More fully, the entry should be read as part of Scripture’s unified history of creation, fall, covenant, kingdom, judgment, and redemption. Its significance is not exhausted by bare chronology or geography, because later biblical writers often recall persons, places, and events as theological signs within the unfolding canon.",
  "background_biblical_context": "Biblically, Adam belongs to the creation and fall narratives, where themes of image-bearing, vocation, marriage, command, temptation, and death first appear.",
  "background_historical_context": "Historically, Adam is set in the primeval opening of Genesis, before Israel's national history, where Scripture introduces humanity's original calling and fall in a world freshly created by God.",
  "background_jewish_ancient_context": null,
  "key_texts_primary": [
    "Genesis 1:26-28 - Humanity as God’s image-bearer.",
    "Genesis 2:7-25 - Adam’s formation, vocation, and marriage.",
    "Genesis 3:1-24 - Adam’s disobedience and the fall.",
    "Romans 5:12-19 - Adam and Christ in representative contrast.",
    "1 Corinthians 15:21-22 - Death in Adam, life in Christ."
  ],
  "key_texts_secondary": [
    "Genesis 5:1-5 - Adam stands at the head of the human genealogical line under death.",
    "Luke 3:38 - Adam is named in the genealogy that leads to Jesus.",
    "1 Corinthians 15:45-49 - Adam and the last Adam are contrasted in resurrection theology.",
    "1 Timothy 2:13-14 - Paul appeals to Adam and Eve in a creation-order argument."
  ],
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  "theological_significance": "Theologically, Adam matters because later Scripture treats him not only as an historical individual but also as a representative head whose disobedience has implications for the human race, especially in contrast with Christ.",
  "philosophical_explanation": null,
  "interpretive_cautions": "Do not treat Adam as a flat moral example or isolate one episode from the whole canonical portrait. Read Adam in relation to covenant role, historical setting, and the larger movement of Scripture.",
  "major_views_note": null,
  "doctrinal_boundaries": null,
  "practical_significance": "Adam reminds readers that the Bible explains the human condition in terms of creation, fall, guilt, and the need for a new head in Christ rather than in merely therapeutic categories.",
  "related_entries": [
    "Covenant",
    "Israel",
    "Messiah",
    "temple"
  ],
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