Methuselah (Man living at the time before the Flood)

Luke names him only as a link in the chain, ‘son of Methuselah’, but the Book of Noah fragment gives him an actual scene: the grandfather who travels to find Enoch when his newborn grandson's birth looks less than human.

Methuselah was Enoch's son and Noah's grandfather, and Genesis records his age at death as nine hundred sixty-nine years, the longest lifespan of anyone in the Bible, giving rise to the phrase old as Methuselah. By the traditional genealogical chronology in Genesis 5, Methuselah's death lines up with the same year as the flood, though the text itself draws no explicit connection between the two.