"Generations of Adam"[citation needed] is a genealogical concept recorded in Genesis 5:1 in the Hebrew Bible.
[non-primary source needed] It is typically taken as the name of Adam's line of descent going through Seth.
[3][4][5][7] Evidence for this include the solar symbolism of the seventh figure on each list (the Sumerian king Enmeduranna sharing his name with the city where worship of the sun god was focused, Enoch living 365 years).
[7] Fritz Hommel further argued that Amelon was Enosh (both third in the list with names meaning "mankind"), that Ammenon was Cainan/Cain (both fourth and connected to craftsmanship), and so on; noting that the tenth in each line was a hero who survived a world flood.
Post-biblical Jewish chronicles, surviving primarily in Syriac and Geez, elaborate on the genealogies in Genesis.