1. On the face of it, the basic literary genre of Genesis 1-4 is that of historical narrative (as opposed to, e.g., poetry, legal code, or apocalypse).
2. The first five verses of Genesis 5 not only describe events in Adam’s life, they attaches specific numerical dates to those events.
3. The author of Genesis presents the book as a seamless historical account.
4. Adam is named in the genealogy in 1 Chronicles 1.
5. The interpretation of Hosea 6:7 is disputed, but a good case can be offered that taking ‘Adam’ as a reference to the first human being, rather than as a place-name or as ‘mankind’, makes best sense in the context.
6. The genealogy of Jesus Christ given in Luke 3:23-38 traces all the way back to Adam.
7. In Matthew 19:3-9, in answer to a question about divorce, Jesus refers the Pharisees back to the account of the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis 1-2.
8. In Romans 5:12-21, Paul draws his famous parallel between Adam and Jesus.
9. In the same passage, Paul states that “death reigned from Adam to Moses” (verse 14). Paul clearly means to refer to a specific period in human history;
10. Paul’s parallel between Adam and Christ reappears in 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (also verse 45).
11. In 1 Timothy 2:12-14, Paul refers to specific details about the creation and fall of Adam and Eve to support his instructions about women teaching in the church.
12. Jude 14 refers to “Enoch, the seventh from Adam”; it’s a reasonable presumption that the author of Jude viewed both Enoch and Adam as historical individuals.