The genealogies, Adam to Jesus

The genealogies. Six overlapping, independently transmitted lists compiled by different hands for different audiences, two running the same span in opposite directions.

In plain words

Six overlapping lists, kept by different hands, trace the line from Adam to Jesus, and two of them run the same span in opposite directions: the descent is the text's most carefully kept record.

The mechanism

CHAIN OF CUSTODY — a paper that claims a bloodline as its carrier and never documents the descent has asked you to take its central object on trust. The descent is the text's most obsessively maintained record

Scripture

Genesis 5, 11; 1 Chronicles 1–3; Ruth 4; Matthew 1; Luke 3

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 5, 11; 1 Chronicles 1–3; Ruth 4; Matthew 1; Luke 3