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What is the purpose of describing who is son of who?
In many excerpts of the Bible one can find an extended description of a person and his respective descendents. What's the purpose of this? Is it supposed to give an idea of how much time passed ...
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What is the theological import behind genealogies?
So, several places in the bible are just lists of names:
Genesis 5
I Chronicles 1 - 10
Matthew 1
Luke 3
all come to mind.
In Matthew 1, in particular, I have pulled sermons out of the only four ...
