What Genealogies Tell Us X A different genealogy, a different story
The genealogy in chapter ten exhibits a structure at once similar and quite different from the genealogies in chapters 5 & 11. But it operates …
What Genealogies Tell Us IX A different Genealogy, A different story
In the first post in this series, I said, “We assume a biblical genealogy works like a pedigree, or a family tree, as a list …
What Genealogies Tell Us VIII The Fall Repeated
The flood cleansed the violent culture. That was the symptom. The disease remained, which Noah demonstrated in a surprising way not long after leaving the …
What Genealogies Tell Us VII A Flood of Violence
Ten generations, each link connecting to another, and then one link reaches outside the family chain and fastens to an event, the great Flood. But …
What Genealogies Tell Us VI The Chain Connects
We’ve already watched Noah break this genealogy’s pattern several times — five hundred years before a son is named, three sons instead of one, the …