Adam and his generations fit into a historical time and place. The time is approximately seven thousand years ago in the region the Hebrews called “Shinar” in the Old Testament that we know as Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. A land associated with the Sumerians who lived in that region for roughly 2,000 years, biblically corresponding approximately to the time from Adam to Abraham – a family of non-Sumerians that have been called Akkadians in history books.