Questions tagged [genealogy]
Questions related to Genealogies listed in the books of the Bible
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Are we all descendants of Noah and his sons?
If the Bible story of the great flood is true, then unless the flood did not kill all human and animal life other than the occupants of the ark, is it Christian belief that all human cultures of the ...
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Did Augustine suggest that the differences between Matthew and Luke's genealogies mean Joseph was adopted?
The Bible says that Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus because Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
However, I have heard that Augustine may have suggested that the ...
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Did Matthew or the Church Fathers know the rabbinical tradition that Rahab was Joshua's wife and the mother of several prophets? (Mt.511)
Matthew lists Rahab the prostitute of Jericho as one of Jesus' ancestors. I've sometimes wondered why. Yes, she risked her life to save the spies sent by Joshua to Jericho. But would that be enough ...
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Can "The Virgin Mary" be called "daughter of Aaron"?
Luke 1:36
And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. (New Revised Standard Version)
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Can details be given as to how “the integral age of the righteous” teaching arose?
This Q is a follow-up to one I recently asked in Hermeneutics – link - https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/80776/does-the-hebrew-of-deuteronomy-312-indicate-that-moses-date-of-death-was-...
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I'm Looking for a Well Sourced Article on this Argument About Old Testament Genealogy
I remember reading a while back about how the ages in the Old Testaments first genealogy (leading up to Noah) were not representative of the actual ages of the individuals, but rather that this ...
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How do those who hold Genesis is in a mythic genre but the Gospels historical genre reconcile Luke 3's genealogy which matches Genesis?
There are some Christians who hold that genre is highly relevant in Biblical exegesis, and resolve the incompatibility of the, for examples, Genesis creation account, the start of humanity with Adam ...
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How much time passes between Adam and Jesus?
According to Luke's genealogy Jesus is the 76th great grandchild of Adam. But in the holy bible how many years elapse between the creation of Adam and the birth of Jesus?
I have googled the question, ...
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Do Reformed, Protestant, Trinitarians regard the consecutive names in Luke 3:23-38 as the number of generations from Christ back to Adam?
Matthew records forty two generations (three times fourteen) from Abraham to Christ, these being (from David onwards) the royal line, the route of the throne.
Luke records about fifty generations, via ...
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What was the importance of including all of the families in books like Numbers?
I’m currently participating in The Bible in a Year Podcast (unsponsored but you should totally do it, very well made). We are currently in Numbers and Dueteronomy, and in the book of Numbers, there ...
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Most complete biblical genealogical chart?
Dutripon, Bibliorum Sacrorum Concordantiæ pp. v-xii gives a chronological table divided into six ages, numbered by years of the world (anno mundi) and years before Jesus Christ (ante J. Ch.). He says ...
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Other claimants to throne of David besides Jesus?
Since Jesus was in the royal line, it seems likely he had contemporaries in the royal line also. Is it possible to estimate how many legitimate candidates for King of Israel lived at the time of Jesus,...
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According to Jewish Law, is Jesus entitled to the throne of David? [closed]
Can it be shown from Jewish law/tradition that the legal right to the royal lineage may be passed through adoption, as in the case of Joseph (descendant of David) and Jesus?
It's my understanding that,...
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Do we know who the descendants of Mary mother of Jesus were?
So I am not asking about Mary and Joseph's genealogy. I am asking about their children's descendants. So Jesus's siblings' children, their children's children, etc. Whenever I search for this, I ...
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Is the Canaanite woman from Tyre and Sidon a Gentile or not?
As far as I know the Canaanite woman, she is a gentile, yes?
Or is she from Ham's son's lineage Canaan etc?
What makes a gentile?
Is it only not being in one of the twelve tribes of Israel?
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Repetition of "and he begat sons and daughters:"
While reading Genesis 5, we can read the development of human race from Adam to Noah, bridging the gap between the two.
During that passage, there's an expression mentioned often
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Different genealogy in Matthew and Luke
In the Matthew and Luke we can read the genealogy of Jesus. While in Matthew 1 it dates back to Abraham, in Luke 3 it goes back to Adam.
What's the significance of this difference?
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Could Luke 3 be Joseph's genealogy?
I am considering the possibility that Luke 3 is in fact the genealogy of Joseph and not Mary. Here is why...
Luke mentions the circumcision and the naming of both Jesus and John on the 8th day in ...
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Matthew/Luke Generations missing between Rahab and David
While some people are interested in where the generations are different, my problem comes from where they are the same, to wit:
Boaz,
Obed,
Jesse,
David
Now Rahab is listed as the mother of Boaz. My ...
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Was there no word for son in law in Biblical Koine Greek?
I find it hard to believe that there was no word for that kind of thing but this source explains that Jesus' genealogy is harmonized by that claim. I really want that claim to be true and solidly ...
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The chronology of Genesis in relation to language
Based on the following verses...
Genesis 10:5
(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) The Hamites
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Why is Jesus' lineage different in Matthew and Luke? [duplicate]
In Matthew 1, there is a genealogy of Jesus from Abraham to Jesus, but in Luke 3:23-28, there is also a genealogy of Jesus from God to Adam to Jesus, but it's different to Matthews' version.
Why? And ...
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How could Jesus be descended from the royal line of David if he was born of the Virgin Birth?
The first chapter of Matthew traces Jesus' lineage through his father Joseph back to King David through something like 18 generations. But as we know, Jesus was born through the agency of the Holy ...
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If Joseph was Jesus's adoptive father then did Jesus really have David's blood? [closed]
I'm new to this site, but I'm as well searching for answers of several questions I've been facing.
Last Monday, I had a question involving the relationship of Jesus and Joseph.
So far I know, Joseph ...
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Reading the genealogy of Adam up to Noah as a sentence in Hebrew
I found the following theory that I can only trace as far back as to Chuck Missler (http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/44/). It states that the names is the early Genesis genealogy have the following ...
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What is the farthest back an LDS Member has traced his family tree?
Knowing how important genealogy research is to LDS leads me to wonder how far back any of us could trace our family tree. Have any LDS members been able to trace back to any biblical characters?
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If Adam is an allegorical character, which Bible character in messianic genealogy is the first real human?
Whenever a question is posed about Adam, Eve, or other characters and events described in the book of Genesis, inevitably some answers state that these events are allegorical. So I would like an ...
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What evidence is there that the genealogies in the early part of Genesis refer to tribes instead of individuals?
One method of interpreting the genealogies in the early parts of Genesis is as not referring to actual individuals, but rather to tribes, nations, and groups of people represented by the names of ...
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How was Jesus the Seed of David if Jesus is God who created Man (Adam), and David is the seed of Adam?
How is Jesus the Messiah, the seed of David, if Jesus is God, and God created Man (Adam), and David is the seed of Adam? This is a never-ending circle, and can't physically be possible. We are told in ...
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Why Does Matthew not give Jesus Christ's genealogy from Adam?
In Matthew 1:1, it says that Jesus is the son of David and the son of Abraham. Why does he not start from Adam and Eve?
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Judah, Joseph, and Jacob's birthright
Jacob had twelve sons, the firstborn of whom was Reuben. Yet, the birthright that should have passed on to Reuben did not due to Reuben's sin against his father (1 Chronicles 5:1-2).
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Why is Ruth's child in the line of Boaz and not Mahlon?
It seems to me that according to this law the first-born child of Boaz and Ruth should have been recorded in the line of Mahlon:
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, ...
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If Jesus is the son of God then why bother listing his genealogy?
Mathew gives the following geneolgoy:
Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah & Tamar Perez Hezron Ram Amminadab Nahshon
Salmon & Rahab Boaz & Ruth Obed Jesse David & Bathsheba Solomon &
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Is there any evidence that Paul was a descendant of Jonathan?
Paul being a descendant of Jonathan would have some appeal from a devotional perspective since Jesus' more direct saving of Paul could be viewed as fulfilling the covenant of friendship between David ...
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The Messiah and Joseph's genealogy [duplicate]
One of the requisite of the Messiah is to be from the line of David (Lk 3:23-38 and Mt 1:1-17) but we know that Joseph wasn't Jesus's biological father. Thoughts on this? Thanks.
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Why are the men of Genesis so old? Were the dating systems just different? Are all of these old ages supposed to have symbolic meaning? [duplicate]
Genesis 5:3-32 ESV spends a great deal of time describing the age of the men in Adam's lineage through Seth. Why are the men of Genesis so old? Were the dating systems just different? Are all of ...
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Why are we given details about what the descendants of Cain did? Is there special significance to these details?
Genesis 4 discusses the descendants of Cain:
"Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. To Enoch ...
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Why does Genesis record only 10 names from Adam to Noah?
Genesis 5 (NIV)
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in
his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. After he begot
Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred ...
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Why do Matthew and Luke contain genealogies of Jesus, while Mark and John do not?
Both Matthew and Luke contain genealogies of Jesus, Matthew to Abraham, and Luke to Adam. However, neither Mark nor John contain genealogies. What is the reason for this--both for why Matthew and ...
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In Theistic Evolution when do the genealogies in Genesis become real?
In Genesis there is the genealogy of Adam to Noah, then the account of the flood. After that is the genealogy of Noah to Abraham. The accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons then follow. ...
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When 1 Timothy cautions against "endless geneologies", is it talking about the Bible?
It seems that at the time that 1 Timothy was written, "certain people" had become much too interested in genealogies:
1 Timothy 1:3-4
3 I repeat the request I made of you when I was on my way to ...
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What is the significance of Matthew starting with the names of the ancestors of Jesus?
The Gospel of Matthew starts by stating the names of ancestors of Jesus Christ. Does that have any significance other than to establish that Jesus was a descendant of King David?
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Is the genealogy in Matthew a complete Genealogy, or did he abreviate it for a specific reason?
The genealogy in Matthew 1 lists the names in 3 groups - From Abraham to David, David to the Exile, The Exile to Jesus.
I'm just interested to know is this a complete family history for Jesus, or is ...
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Shouldn't Mary’s genealogy be Jesus' family history? [closed]
Matthew 1:1-17 provides a genealogy of Jesus, traced back to Abraham:
The Family History of Jesus the Messiah:
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Abraham was the father of Isaac
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Matthan was the father of ...
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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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Jesus's genealogy: 28 generations or 41 since David? [duplicate]
These questions keep me wondering:
Firstly, how is it possible that Matthew and Luke came up with completely different genealogies of Jesus's ancestors, if they are both following the masculine line?
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What is the theological import behind genealogies? [closed]
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 ...
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Why is Jesus' genealogy traced through Joseph?
Why is Jesus' genealogy in Matthew and Luke traced back to David through Joseph if Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit?
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Who was St. Joseph's Father? The New Testament seems to give two answers
Matthew 1:16 (NASB)
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.
Luke 3:23 (ESV)
23 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about ...
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