Excellent and ross sends. Ane mill love the podcast. Wouldn't the extensive genealogies before and after noah lead us to believe that he was a historical person?

They would, to the degree that those genealogies are meant to be taken literally. Ah. Now, one of the options we covered was that noah is based on a real historical person, even if the flood wasn't global. I mean, there have obviously big floods at different periods in history, and and people have survived them by god's providence. And noah may be based on one of those people. And so a ther even though these are very early genealogies describing remote period in the past, it's possible that they contain accurate information. But a the way, you also have to be sensitive to the way genealogies worked. In ancient israel, they commonly did things like skip generations. Ah, because in hebrew, the word for father also means grandfather and great grandfather. Any male ancestor is a father. And so that makes it very easy to skip generations. That's why you can say, jesus is the son of davidi of the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, something, grandson of david. Another thing that happens in hebrew genealogies is you a can have posthumous adoptions. So like, when somebody becomes a member of yo of israel, they need to be fitted into one of the 12 tribes. And so they will be post humously meaning after death, they will be ascribed to somebody's genealogy as like, ok, this guy is legally the sun of this patriarch. And so that introduces an additional element that we wouldn't expect, because we don't typically do that in genealogies to day. And then when you study ancient near eastern genealogies, there also are figures in them were like when two groups merge, they will a say, well, we're now the same group. So we must have had a common ancestor. Let's give him a name. And then that becomes another aspect of the genealogy. And so when the collective effect of all this is you can't read ancient genealogies from the bible as if theire modern genealogies, they incorporate additional like legal and reconstructive elements that mean that you can't simply identify somebody and say, ok, well, this person was exactly the son of this person. There they incorporate additional literary elements. And so given that this is the oldest set of genealogies that's describing a prime eval period in earthe history, there may be a large degree of reconstruction here, and we may not necessarily be able to extract a lot of historical information from it.